Posted by William Tasso on 12/02/72 11:24

Writing in news:alt.www.webmaster,alt.html
From the safety of the Bell Sympatico cafeteria
GreyWyvern <spam@greywyvern.com> said:

> ...
> Is all your alt text just a teaser to get people with images turned off
> to load them to see what they're missing? Don't you think that's a
> little presumptuous? What if your visitors are blind?

Which reminds me ... a few days ago I added a background image and
generally tidied up a very old page. The pic I used is quite famous to
those in the know, however it is largely obscured (almost completely in
IE).

I wanted to add some comment to the page, noting pertinant info about the
image. I settled on a short paragraph in the end, but it did occur to me
that those surfing without images would wonder wtf I was talking about and
that perhaps an image of the text (with no alt text) would be a better
choice.

--
William Tasso

** Business as usual

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