Re: Empty alt tags

I try to say 'ALT text' when talking to newbies, because I don't 
want them to worry what an attribute is, but I don't want to call it a tag.

If they want to know more, I show them, then call it an attribute, 'look,
here's the SRC attribute...'

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles F. Munat" <chas@munat.com>
To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: Empty alt tags


> For most people, however, tags are those things between angle brackets,
> so I do think it is confusing. I don't think it's that hard to say
> "elements" and "attributes" and to make a clear distinction. The tag,
> really, is just half an element (usually).