Re: screen readers for macs - also bobby question

On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, David Poehlman wrote:

> I disagree with this.  AS a braille display user, I don't need nonsense on
> my display.  alt="" is the magic string for nonesential images.

true, but how do you know it is "nonsense" if it not tagged with an alt
description...

Bob

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> Subject: Re: screen readers for macs - also bobby question
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> On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, David Woolley wrote:
> 
> > > example 2: for purely decorative images it has become
> > > general practise to use empty alt attributes.  that is
> > > just to satisfy bobby and wai.  how is that more
> > > accessible than a missing alt attribute?
> >
> > A missing alt makes the HTML invalid.  I think the idea was that requiring
> > the attribute would make people think about it, but, of course, people
> just
> 
> and if you are using text, you never know wheather it is "just for
> pretty" or critical information...I think EVERY piece of graphic no matter
> how unimportant the writer thinks it is (well it must be important he
> coded it) it should be left to the reader to decide if it is
> valuable. even if the alt tag is "pretty curlicues" it should be there.  I
> don't think any alt should ever be empty for any reason if it displays for
> any user the information should be there for every user.
> 
> Bob
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