Re: Empty vs no alt attribute (was Re: Baby Steps or Backwards Steps?) from Joshue O Connor on 2007-08-17 (wai-xtech@w3.org from August 2007)

From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:50:02 +0100
To: Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl>
Cc: HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>, wai-xtech@w3.org
Message-ID: <46C5EDDA.90608@cfit.ie>

Sander Tekelenburg wrote:
> I cannot imagine how alt="unknown" could be useful to anyone. 

I am also at a loss to understand how this is useful. Is it expected
that screen readers would read output "unknown" when they came across
and image that used the attribute in this way?

Josh

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