- From: Patrick Burke <burke@ucla.edu>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 12:06:37 -0700
- To: mpodd@iqnetcom.com, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 12:52 PM 8/15/01, Michelle Podd wrote: > >Hello, > >Can anyone tell me the purpose for using empty alt tags for >unessential > >images like spacer gifs? The basic idea is to avoid bombarding screen reader users (or other non-visual users) with extraneous information. If the items in a navigation bar have "This is an empty placeholder with no meaning" interspersed several times among the active links, the intelligibility can drop dramatically! Patrick
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