- From: Phill Jenkins <pjenkins@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 11:21:00 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> I have been recommending using ALT=' ' If you include the space in-between the quotes, then the graphical browsers may pop-up a tool tip with a space in it. This is, as Mike Scott said, a slight annoyance to sighted users, and some graphical designers consider it a major annoyance (their opinion). But more importantly it is confusing to the learning disabled - in other words it is not a recommended practice to but space or any other special character between the quotes. Since newer browsers are now using the title attribute first, if it is there, as the source of the tool tip, then that needs to be considered as well. The HTML 4 spec requires the alt attribute to be valid HTML. Bobby and other checkers look for the existence of the alt attribute tag at least, so the alt attribute is required. The content of the alt tag is what is usually debated. Considering all disabilities, alt equals quote quote is best! Regards, Phill
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