At 03:21 PM 11/10/99 -0500, you wrote: >Hello, > >A while back ER requested that GL discuss "null alt-text." It was >discussed t our 28 October telecon [1]. > >Our conclusions from that call are as follows: > >1. authors shouldn't use " " since spaces are ignored by user agents. >2.   is just another form of white space and therefore should be >avoided because it should not be used for formatting. it should only used >to keep pieces of text together (e.g. in WCAG we keep the word "priority" >and the level together). >3. <A href="foo.html"> <img alt="" src=...> prices </A> is o.k. >4. <A href="foo.html"> <img alt="prices" ...><img alt="" src=...> </A> is >not o.k. an abuse of the image element. > >Therefore, if the rest of the members of this working group agrees with >these conclusions we will send them on to ER as well as incorporate them >into the Techniques document. So far as I know I have not received answers to the questions raised in Re: minutes posted http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/1999OctDec/0021.html about this point. To recap in brief, What user agents ignore the space character in ALT=" "? What do they do? What access impairment is caused by the use of ALT=" " on a spacer image used inline between otherwise un-separated text content? How should one mark this up otherwise if not ALT=" "? Unless someone can answer those questions better, I would like to dissent on points 1. and 2. Al > >--wendy > >[1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/meetings/19991028.html >Received on Wednesday, 10 November 1999 17:29:47 GMT
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