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Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 06/04/07 06:20
Gazing into my crystal ball I observed cwdjrxyz <spamtrap2@cwdjr.info>
writing in news:1180929504.448376.215870@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com:
>> >> <h1><img src="companylogo.png" alt="" height="100"
>> >> width="200">Company Name</h1>
>>
>> > You can also leave it out altogether. What are the bad
>> > consequences beyond failing validation because of it?
>>
>> If you leave out the alt attribute in Opera, for example, it creates
>> an image placeholder that says Image, if you use alt="", it does not.
>> You would be surprised how many slice and dice sites I've been to
>> that have Image on them 20 times or more. This is especially true if
>> you turn images off (and I sometimes do even though I have
>> broadband).
>
> Since the alt text is often needed by the disabled, it sometimes pays
> to include it for absolutely all images, even those serving for
> nonessential pure decoration, even if using alt="" many be quite legal
> formally.
Actually, with the advent of CSS and separation of presentation from
content, any images would have to have some semantic meaning, and
therefore, would need alt text.
Even:
<img
src="http://images.fedex.com/images/globalhome/globalhome_fedex_corp_logo
..gif" alt="Purple letters spelling Fed, followed by white letters
spelling Ex where the lower portion of the E becomes the tail of a right
pointing arrow" width="152" height="38">
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