RE: Null Alt Text

• From: Charles (Chuck) Oppermann <chuckop@MICROSOFT.com>
• Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:40:42 -0800
• To: w3c-wai-au@w3.org
• Message-ID: <BB61526CDE70D2119D0F00805FBECA2F030D0FCB@RED-MSG-55>

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Some HTML editors set the Alt text to null (ALT="") and let the user fill it
in later. If a screen reader came across an image with null Alt text then
they would have to assume that the image was not a 'spacer' and would have
to say "image".
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Ah - the root of the issue - a HTML authoring tool should never
automatically set ALT="", but should allow the user to do.

Received on Wednesday, 25 November 1998 16:40:49 UTC