- From: Johannes Ewalt Koch <koch@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:00:15 +0200 (CEST)
- To: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
> At 08:53p +0200 07/11/2000, Jan Roland Eriksson didst inscribe upon
> an electronic papyrus:
> >On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 14:40:16 -0400, Alf Inge Myhre Tunheim
> ><tunheim@operamail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >Are there any guidelines about what text string (if any) that should be
> > >specified in the alt attribute of images that only have a visual design
> > >purpose?
> >
> >Yes, it's right there in the HTML4.01 specification...
> >
> >Section "13.8 How to specify alternate text" has this...
> >
> > "Do not specify irrelevant alternate text when including
> > images intended to format a page, for instance, alt="red ball"
> > would be inappropriate for an image that adds a red ball for
> > decorating a heading or paragraph. In such cases, the alternate
> > text should be the empty string (""). Authors are in any case
> > advised to avoid using images to format pages; style sheets
> > should be used instead.
> >
> >So the answer to your question would be ALT=""
>
> I *strongly* DISagree, for the following reasons:
>
> * MSIE displays "(Image)" instead of "" (when image loading is off)
> * Lynx does not show <A HREF><IMG ALT=""></A> links
Lynx (Version 2.8.1rel.2) can display something like
[bla.gif]-[bla.gif]
^1) ^2)
1) Link to link anchor
2) Link to Image source
if you press '*'.
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Johannes Koch http://waldbaer.home.pages.de/
In te, Domine, speravi; non confundar in aeternum.
(from: Tedeum, 4th century)
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