- From: Charles McCathie Nevile <charlesn@srl.rmit.EDU.AU>
- Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 23:36:43 +1100 (EST)
- To: Chris Ridpath <chris.ridpath@utoronto.ca>
- cc: "Charles (Chuck) Oppermann" <chuckop@microsoft.com>, w3c-wai-au@w3.org
Not quite. The use of spacer images is primarily a kluge to support visual layout. In some cases these images are completely irrelevant to non-visual media, and should be ignored completely, by providing null ALT values (ALT=""). This also applies to some 'eye candy', or images used to fill in space, although one could provide ALT="dum de dum de dum" just to make it as annoying to non-visual users as to visual users waiting to download it. All images should indeed have ALT text. However, a null value is not intrinsically unacceptable as ALT text. Charles McCathieNevile On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Chris Ridpath wrote: > All images should have Alt text. Images that have Alt text set to Null > (Alt="") would be incorrect. > > The WAI guidelines are at: > http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wai-gl-techniques-19980918.html#spacer-images > but they do not seem to seem to clarify this matter. > > Make sense? > > Chris
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