Re: One more thought about requiring the alt to add to the pile

and is prone to abuse as well.  A user of text renderers has a right  
to know that something is there.

On Apr 21, 2008, at 4:32 AM, Joshue O Connor wrote:


David Poehlman wrote:
>> This is dangerous though as if you need to know that the text is  
>> null alted,
>> you won't even know to look so JAWS should at least announce  
>> "graphic".

henri wrote:
> I'm not sure I follow. Isn't the whole point of the empty string as  
> alt that the image can be totally removed from the non-graphic  
> rendering [...]

Yes, it is. And adding the alt="" is a practical way of doing this.

Cheers

Josh