- From: Jim Nagel <jim.nagel@UKonline.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 20:00:09 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
hello, W3C ; this is England calling. i was recently offended by a pain graphic-exclusive site today and put it through your validator robot. i am one of those people who prefer to browse with graphics switched off -- slow phone lines over here, and expensive. at this site, i saw nothing but blank rectangles, little ones that were obviously buttons, but the labels had not yet shown because they were graphics, no text. i always thought HTML rules demanded ALT tags with each graphic: a word or two of plain text. so i was surprised that your robot's report did not mention the lack of alt tags. i note, by the way, that the pages in question were generated by Microsoft Frontpage software. http://www.theoldoaks.co.uk am i right in feeling rude the remark near the bottom of http://www.theoldoaks.co.uk/header.html ? what if i were blind and depended on software that reads web text out loud for me? your comments would be interesting! i have a column to write! -- --jim nagel Computer Shopper magazine UK, freelance on a StrongArm xAcorn Risc Machine. British technik. no tax to Gate$. ... kindly prearrange before sending large files (slow lines here) ... no Microsoft attachments (Word, Office, Excel, M$HTML, ...) please keep those viruses, worms, trojans and monopolies to yourself!
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