Re: null alt=

At 01:46 p.m. 04/29/99 -0700, William Loughborough wrote:
>"page still gets a bobby approved when in actuality the links, which are
>images with alt="", are invisible." 

This may be acceptable sometimes.

>If our "AAA conformant" authoring tool put out anything that met the
>above description, where did we go wrong?  The example cited is
>http://www.dors.state.md.us/test.html which I haven't tested.

If the same link can be accessed some other way, then it doesn't
matter if the link is invisible.

>Bruce Bailey, who brought this up recommends: "My recommendation is that
>ALT="" should be illegal inside <A HREF..."

Example:

<A HREF="http://www.hwg.org/" TITLE="Go to the HWG"
  ><IMG SRC="hwg.gif" ALT=""></A>
<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.hwg.org/" TITLE="Go to the HWG"
  >HTML Writers Guild</A>

For graphical browsers, this displays as:

(Image -- Link)
(Text -- Link)

For non-graphical browsers, this displays as:

(Text -- Link)

I maintain that the above is better than:

_HTML Writers Guild_
_HTML Writers Guild_

...which is what would result if I had used ALT="HTML Writers Guild"


--
Kynn Bartlett <kynn@hwg.org>
President, Governing Board Member
HTML Writers Guild <URL:http://www.hwg.org>
Director, Accessible Web Authoring Resources and Education Center
  <URL:http://aware.hwg.org/>

Received on Thursday, 29 April 1999 17:29:38 UTC