Posted by Geoff Berrow on 06/01/05 15:11

I noticed that Message-ID: <jlpq915r7319m50rbdutiege22rv23vtc5@4ax.com>
from nemo contained the following:

> >alt text should be used to display any content contained in an image for
> >the benefit of aural browsers. The idea of having a standard text is a
> >nonsense.
>If the site owner wants the same piece of alt text to accompany each
>picture, how can it be nonsense? It might not be very helpful for readers,
>but it isn't nonsense(!).


It's nonsense because standard text cannot describe the content of the
image. Alt text is to display what ever content would be there if the
image was missing. However, if the image is purely window dressing,
like horizontal rules and bullets, the correct markup is alt="".

http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/alt/alt-text.html
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