- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:38:30 -0500 (EST)
- To: Steve Brumbaugh <sbrumb@fas.harvard.edu>
- cc: Ineke van der Maat <inekemaa@xs4all.nl>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
A good browser will make it clear that there is an image (I believe you can get this information from screen readers workng with at least IE, you can certainly get it from lynx, ... cheers Chaals On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Steve Brumbaugh wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Ineke van der Maat wrote: > When I use alt="" because it is a meaningless picture, the blind user > has no idea there is a image in the page. But what to do when I have > to mention who has the copyrights of that meaningless image? Since the image doesn't render at all for the user, do you necessarily have to include any copyright information? Granted, I'm no lawyer, but declaring copyright information for non-existent material seems illogical. Steve Brumbaugh http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~sbrumb/ -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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