RE: Microsoft make an article about alt text...

But each of the images are clearly identified with their figure number in
the html and good and bad text equivalents are given.

Isn't the purpose of accessibility that the site can be accessed.  Or is it
a slavish technical excercise.

Harry Woodrow

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Subject: Microsoft make an article about alt text...


http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnacc/html/ATG_TextEquivalentsforIma
ges.asp

...but don't bother to put any alt text in any of the images in the
article page. Oh dear.

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Tom Gilder
w3c@tom.me.uk


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