Melinda Morris-Black wrote: > Actually, what I should have typed was how does Bobby or any of the verification > applications handle the empty quotes? Does it validate as compliant? Bobby passes null ALT tags. Missing ALT tags is valid for HTML 3.2. Null ALT is valid HTML 4x. > Thanks to all that have responded. I can always count on quick responses from this > group. The page Carl sent is particularly wonderful -- > http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/alt/alt-text.html Alan Flavell is brilliant and occasional contributes to this list. The article in question, however, is NOT strongly oriented towards consideration of the blind. For bullets and rules, use * and --- which have the advantage of not usually being spoken by a screen reader, unless the user asks for it. Reference http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/alt/alt-table.html which summarizes things up nicely.Received on Monday, 5 June 2000 22:44:15 GMT
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