- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 17:23:43 -0500
- To: A.Flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk
- CC: WAI Guidelines List <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Alan J. Flavell wrote: > > In the techniques document at > http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-WAI-PAGEAUTH-19990226/wai-pageauth-tech.html#spacer-images > > it says > > If authors cannot use style sheets and must use invisible or > transparent images to lay out images on the page, they must > supply"null" (alt=) or "white space" (alt=" ") alt-text, whichever > the context requires. > > Something seems to have gone wrong with the punctuation here. The lack > of white space between 'supply' and '"null"' is only cosmetic, but the > suggestion to code alt= rather than the more usual alt="" seems to be > an error; at least, when I offered this construct to the HTML > validator, it rejected it, which rather confirmed my suspicion that > something was amiss. Alan, Thank you for the comment. I will fix this. -- Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) Tel/Fax: (212) 684-1814 http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs
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