Re: Web Forms: Usability and Accessibility Question.

> incorrectly.  I agree that it might not be necessarily good to have all
> graphics turned on, but labeled graphics is certainly within the realm of
> expectation for a user of a graphical environment.

Surely the problem here is the level of abuse of alt attributes.

If you ignore the sites that don't use them at all, you will find a large
number of sites that treat them as a Netscape 4 tooltip feature, and a lot
that apply token accessibility compliance by providing alt text that matches the
image file name, or which is a description rather than an alternative.  You
will also still find sites (I hit one recently) that use them for keyword
stuffing (for search engine manipulation).

Received on Wednesday, 4 February 2004 02:51:02 UTC