- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 15:01:20 +0100
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 02:56:56PM +0100, Andrew Cates wrote: > >> Because the image is only there for presentation and the alt > attribute is only used for content images. > > However, the WAI guidelines say "Provide a text equivalent for every > non-text element" The text equivalent for something decorative could easily be considered to be a null string. > Given no one is 100% compliant it saves time and energy trying to work > out what things are if even background decoration is labelled as such. Speaking as a user of alternative text for images, I find such descriptions annoying at best, certainly never helpful. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk
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