- From: Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpatrick@macromedia.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 07:54:58 -0800
- To: "Gez Lemon" <gez.lemon@gmail.com>, "Maurizio Boscarol" <maurizio@usabile.it>
- Cc: "W3C WAI" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> The reason I mentioned that was because you were surprised > that alternative text wasn't given a higher priority. I think > this is partly because if you don't know that other people > are getting more information than you, you don't realise > you're not being treated fairly. I do think that is also > related to validity in this instance. Or possibly because most images on the web don't carry content, and screen readers have moved toward ignoring alt-less images. The ones that are not ignored at the images that are links, and I bet that a significant portion of the "bad link text" comments in this study are actually missing alt text issues. AWK
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