Re: Null Alt Text

>a HTML authoring tool should never
>automatically set ALT=""...
>
I agree. But it still happens.

If a screen reader comes across an image that has ALT="", can we reccomend
that it informs the user an image is there? The screen reader would still
speak "image" or "image, no alt text".

If a screen reader comes across an image that has ALT ="  " (Alt text with
spaces), can we reccomend that it ignore the image or pause it's output?

Chris


-----Original Message-----
From: Charles (Chuck) Oppermann <chuckop@microsoft.com>
To: w3c-wai-au@w3.org <w3c-wai-au@w3.org>
Date: November 25, 1998 4:41 PM
Subject: RE: Null Alt Text


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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".
>>>
>
>Ah - the root of the issue - a HTML authoring tool should never
>automatically set ALT="", but should allow the user to do.
>

Received on Thursday, 26 November 1998 10:36:11 UTC