Re: Null alt tags for decorative images - Technique H67

Ramón Corominas wrote:
> Do you mean that screen readers should read images with null alt attributes?

I mean they must provide an option to do something like read the URL of 
the image. The problem is that people will do alt="" to shut up checkers.

> 
> David said:
> 
>> Ramón Corominas wrote:
>>> PS: most screen readers totally ignore images with null alt attributes (and all should)
>> Screen readers need to help their users read the, typically badly coded, real world pages their users access.
>>
>> (Incidentally, yet again "tag" is being misused in the subject.)
>>
>> -- 
>> David Woolley
>> Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want.
>> RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam,
>> that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
>>
>>
> 


-- 
David Woolley
Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want.
RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam,
that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.

Received on Thursday, 3 November 2011 08:21:19 UTC