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Re: Creative (?) solution for redundant links

From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 06:58:31 -0500
Message-ID: <002001c1c9bd$3be57560$19e03244@CP286066A>
To: "David Woolley" <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> 
Interesting thought but it is fairly useless because the bug also
extends to alt="x" x being any symbol that someone might have wanted to
use to convey meaning.  We're working on this.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Woolley" <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: Creative (?) solution for redundant links


>
> Jaws has a bug that forces the file name of the image to be rendered

Surely that is a feature to work round sites which provided null alt
text when they should have provided real alt text.
Received on Tuesday, 12 March 2002 06:58:39 UTC

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