- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charlesn@sunrise.srl.rmit.edu.au>
- Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 13:48:12 +1000 (EST)
- To: WAI <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Do we dare snub Bobby approval? Well, fantastic though Bobby is, my personal view is that Bobby is _one_ of the tools that should be used to check pages. The cases raised (ALT="" and simple tables) are good examples of where Bobby can fail the accessibility-minded designer. The onus is then on the designer to know whether and why Bobby is right or wrong - particularly if you are charging money for your expertise. The use of tables to align graphics is not something I am very happy with anymore (I even took it out of my website today). The use of ALT="" is a generally bad thing, although there may be individual cases to be made for some uses. (I am thinking analagously to the use of ALT="*" for images used as bullets in lists, which seems appropriate to me.) Charles McCathieNevile
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