- From: Jon Hanna <jon@spin.ie>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:28:49 +0100
- To: "'WAI IG'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> Slightly on a different topic: does anyone know why a space is often > recommended for the ALT tag of a transparent GIF? > > <IMG SRC="blank.gif" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" ALT=" "> > > Since the blank ALT is there to make the screen reader skip over the > image, why is a space necessary as well? There is a bug in some screen readers that treat empty alt as no alt and give the "default" file name rubbish. Don't know how prevalent it still is.
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