Re: Alternative text

On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 14:06 +0000, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:

> I think you've answered your own question to a certain extent: because  
> there ISN'T anything set in stone (and there couldn't be), there are  
> different schools of thought. Even asking different screen reader /  
> text browser / etc users will usually get you different answers, more  
> akin to personal preference. Personally, I tend to fall into the  
> second camp: if it's something like a photo of a member of staff on a  
> profile page, I'd treat it as visual fluff and put a null alt on it.  

Finding someone somewhere who can clarify this is hard though, as my
co-workers want to do things like adding alt text to every single image,
which is clearly incorrect.

> Of course, it's a judgement call that needs to be carefully  
> made...when is an image fluff and when does it start to become  
> meaningful content?

I think when you can read the content without the image, it would be
fluff, but if you need the image, for example a chart of sales figures,
or the image offers a snapshot, or an 'at a glance' representation of
the content, then yes, it would be worthy of being considered content.

matt


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