At 12:52 PM 8/15/01, Michelle Podd wrote: > >Hello, > >Can anyone tell me the purpose for using empty alt tags for >unessential > >images like spacer gifs? The basic idea is to avoid bombarding screen reader users (or other non-visual users) with extraneous information. If the items in a navigation bar have "This is an empty placeholder with no meaning" interspersed several times among the active links, the intelligibility can drop dramatically! PatrickReceived on Wednesday, 15 August 2001 15:06:46 GMT
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