- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 16:40:03 -0600
- To: David Poehlman <poehlman@clark.net>, WAI User Agent Working Group <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
David, An image with no alt text should have information rendered that there is an image present. An image with empty ALT text (ALT="") should be suppressed. This is my understanding of WCAG guidelines recommendation. Jon At 04:40 PM 11/15/99 -0500, David Poehlman wrote: >I review currently the nov 5 draft and each time I do from the first, >I get a queasy feeling about empty alternatives. I understand on the >one hand why and agree with the sentament that the word image repeated ><50 11> times is pretty obnoxious. Consider for a monemt though that >an image that has no alt text is one that is downloadable or is >desired to be. if Nothing is rendered, it cannot be found by a screen >reader but through digging out the source assuming one knows that it >is there in the first place. Can we then have a ttoggle for this? so >that we can have either the url or nothing rendered? >Thanks! >-- >Hands-On Technolog(eye)s >Touching The Internet: >mailto:poehlman@clark.net >Voice: 301.949.7599 >ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/poehlman >http://poehlman.clark.net >Dynamic Solutions Inc. >Best of service >for your small business >network needs! >http://www.dnsolutions.com > >---sig off--- Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Chair, W3C WAI User Agent Working Group Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services College of Applied Life Studies University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: (217) 244-5870 Fax: (217) 333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund WWW: http://www.w3.org/wai/ua
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