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).Received on Friday, 22 February 2002 11:20:05 UTC
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