Re: heuristic tests not in guidelines

>This case is interesting to me, because it seems appropriate to
>me for Bobby to emit a warning on detecting ALT=SRC, but I don't
>see this as something that rises to "guidelines" level of
>significance.  I don't see the Page Author Recommendation
>forbidding this equality.  Particularly when the SRC is a simple
>relative URL, so it might be an OK ALT after all.


On the other hand, even if it is a relative url,
it will usually append "gif" or jpeg" (the only exception I've seen to this
is w3c <grin>)

It's also often good pracice to put all images in a separate directory.  So
a bullet could be something like

images/bullet.gif

This is an empirical question.  
- What do people on this list who regularly use screen readers think?
- would anyone like to include this in a user survey?

I'd suggest to the extent that users find this rarely useful, that we
stongly consider raising this to guidelines level at least as strong
recommendation in the "implementation" part.

Len
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Leonard R. Kasday
Institute on Disabilities/UAP at Temple University, Philadelphia PA
email:     kasday@acm.org
telephone: (215} 204 2247

Received on Monday, 26 October 1998 10:40:57 UTC