- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:53:45 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > It leads to pointless alt="" on images that have no reasonable text equivalent, just to satisfy conformance checkers. Its not pointless as in reality using alt="" means that the image is effectively ignored by the UA. This method is not used just to satisfy conformance checkers, it has a practical application that is useful to people with disabilities. >And that is actively harmful, because AT can't tell the difference between a semantically null image and a semantically meaningful image with no text alternative. How is it harmful? Using it will render the presentational image semantically void. Anything else that needs to be ascribed a meaning should then use it with some meaningful text. In each case it is useful. Josh
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