Re: null alt revisited

Actually, HPR is adding a switch to speak image if the user wants when
there is no alt=text or title. That is the right way. But a default alt=" "
would be a terrible mistake. That, or alt="" should only be used when the
author clearly understands why it should be used!!

Jim Thatcher
IBM Special Needs Systems
www.ibm.com/sns
thatch@us.ibm.com
(512)838-0432



Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com> on 04/08/99 12:36:55 PM

To:   Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
cc:   James Thatcher/Austin/IBM, love26@gorge.net, "w3c-wai-au@w3.org"
      <w3c-wai-au@w3.org>
Subject:  Re: null alt revisited





At 01:23 p.m. 04/08/99 -0400, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>I'm with Jim on this. It is also possible in most browsers to find out
>whether there are images there (in lynx press * or there is a stratup
>option) - if I want to know whether there are images I check explicitly.

Then this is a browser issue -- you should be using a browser that
allows you to specify "don't display images" instead of generating
its own text that reads [IMAGE].  Remember, Lynx creates [IMAGE],
it's not anything defined in the HTML standard or on the HTML page
itself!

--
Kynn Bartlett <kynn@hwg.org>
President, Governing Board Member
HTML Writers Guild <URL:http://www.hwg.org>

Received on Thursday, 8 April 1999 14:00:00 UTC