- From: Ian Anderson <ianderso@cogeco.ca>
- Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 21:00:03 -0500
- To: "'Aziz Matar'" <matar84@comcast.net>, <www-validator@w3.org>
My suggestion would be to make images such as navigation images part of the table background using CSS. This eliminates the need for an ALT tag and is better form anyway. Even better would be to abandon table based layout entirely. It can be difficult to implement a pure CSS layout but it's worth it. -----Original Message----- From: www-validator-request@w3.org [mailto:www-validator-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Aziz Matar Sent: November 10, 2002 7:44 PM To: www-validator@w3.org Subject: Why does it say ALL images need alt tags? I can understand how alt tags help, but for some images that are used as part of the sites navigation, for example, a small 10x10 square that is used to draw a curve and placed on the corner of your tables for decoration, why does the validator want alt tags on those? I hate that I cant make the page validate as XHTML 1.0 because my navigation images do not have alt tags and I do not want to give them any. :-( Any ideas to work around this? P.S. Yes I understand the validator cannot tell the difference between regular images and images used as part of the layout.
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