- From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:16:21 -0500
- To: Bruce Bailey <bbailey@clark.net>, w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org
At 05:07 PM 10/27/98 -0500, Bruce Bailey wrote: >There are probably a lot of suggestions folks could make for improving >Bobby. My recommendation is that ALT="" should be illegal inside <A >HREF... LRK:: I like that heuristic, but I think it needs to be a warning, not absolutely illegal. What if you have both an decorative icon and text that are part of the same link. For example <A href="index.html"> <IMG SRC="cutsie_doodad.gif" ALT=" "> Home. </A> Here, you want the sighted person to be able to click on cutsie_doodad.gif,so it's inside the link, but you don't want to clutter the screenreader with any ALT text about it at all. (Tho I would argue for a longdesc for people who do want a description of cutsie_doodad.gif). Of course, if ALT=" " is the only thing inside a link then I'd agree that it would be illegal. Len ------- Leonard R. Kasday Institute on Disabilities/UAP at Temple University, Philadelphia PA email: kasday@acm.org telephone: (215} 204 2247
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