- From: David Poehlman <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:27:04 -0400
- To: joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, public-html@w3.org, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, wai-liaison@w3.org
and is prone to abuse as well. A user of text renderers has a right to know that something is there. On Apr 21, 2008, at 4:32 AM, Joshue O Connor wrote: David Poehlman wrote: >> This is dangerous though as if you need to know that the text is >> null alted, >> you won't even know to look so JAWS should at least announce >> "graphic". henri wrote: > I'm not sure I follow. Isn't the whole point of the empty string as > alt that the image can be totally removed from the non-graphic > rendering [...] Yes, it is. And adding the alt="" is a practical way of doing this. Cheers Josh
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