- From: Jim Ley <jim.ley@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:04:24 +0000
On 1/19/06, Anne van Kesteren <fora at annevankesteren.nl> wrote: > Quoting Alexey Feldgendler <alexey at feldgendler.ru>: > > I wonder why alt is a required attribute for IMG in HTML while an > > empty value is allowed. > > Because an empty value means that there is no alternate text and no > attribute at > all means that alternate text is missing. (Which is clearly not what > you want.) I think Alexey's point is that in a correctly authored page no alt attribute could perfectly reasonably mean the attribute is empty, this is a good argument, but one that falls down in reality because so few pages are correctly authored so those groups needing good ALT are left at a disservice unless authors co-operate by specifically giving ALT an empty value. Jim.
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