- From: Andrew Cates <andrew@catesfamily.org.uk>
- Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:56:56 +0100
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Lachlan, You may be right that >> Because the image is only there for presentation and the alt attribute is only used for content images. However, the WAI guidelines say "Provide a text equivalent for every non-text element" and give a long list of includes but no excludes. So unless I have misunderstood it take it up with them not me. See http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT-TECHS/#tech-text-equivalent >> Help who? What benefit is there by giving alternate textual content for presentational images, for users without images enabled? Given no one is 100% compliant it saves time and energy trying to work out what things are if even background decoration is labelled as such. >>Also, out of interest, what alternate content would you even suggest, considering that alt should convey the meaning of the image, not just describe how it looks Well "background decoration" perhaps. Andrew http://catesfamily.org.uk/
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