Re: Investigating the proposed alt attribute recommendations in HTML 5

On 9/6/07, Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl> wrote:
> Aside: you say there "Omitting an iconic text equivalent will make the page
> virtually unusable", but it's not that simple. That applies only to cases
> where the icon is the only indicator. In the case of <a href="/">home <img
> src="home.png"></a>, the icon should *not* have alt text.

You may have understood this, but just to be clear, that should be: <a
href="/">home <img  src="home.png" alt=""></a>

In this case, the image represents text, and that text is an empty string.

-- 
Jon Barnett