- From: Jon Hanna <jon@spin.ie>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 11:06:28 +0100
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> > 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. > > > > It's really a feature to work round abuse of alt="" (i.e. making it > the default and not overriding it). > I'd call it a bug in the design layer rather than a feature. Abusing of alt="" as a user-agent is a poor solution to the problem, especially if the "feature" can't be (easily) turned off by the user.
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