- From: Scott Lay <scottlay@davis.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 10:30:09 -0800
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> > I was doing some accessibility work today and ran across a user who's site > was "Bobby Compliant" but many of theit ALT attributes contained both the > filename and size of the graphic rather than any useful text. This has the > potential to cause some problems because such information in an ALT > attribute would be useless to the visually impared user and would just > frustrate the text-only browsing user. > > I'd like to suggest that something stating that ALT attributes should > contain meaningful content and not filename or image size or it > should have > nothing in it (i.e. ALT=""). > That would be advisable. The default Alt="" tag in Microsoft Frontpage is the file name and file size. A requirement to include a substantive description of the image would be much more beneficial. *** Scott Lay University of California, Davis School of Law scottlay@davis.com Current Project: "The Application of the Americans with Disabilities Act to the World Wide Web"
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