- From: James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:58:08 +0100
- To: Steve Faulkner <sfaulkner@paciellogroup.com>
- Cc: HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>
Steve Faulkner wrote: > Once the arguments for omitting the alt attribute have been thoroughly > reseached. If it turns out that there are legitimate cases for > indicating that no alt has been provided, what would the arguments be > against using alt=" " (quote space quote) to signify an image that for > which an alt has been provided? > > This would differentiate it from cases where the author has not provided > an alt attribute/text on images that are not "critical content" out of > ignorance or laziness. Distinguishing the cases alt="" and alt=" " would make it very easy to typo a meaningfully-different value and very hard to spot the mistake. If such an explicit indicator is desirable, using alt="" and noalt seems like a better solution. -- "Mixed up signals Bullet train People snuffed out in the brutal rain" --Conner Oberst
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