[thelist] Good alt texts [was .gif texts]
aardvark
roselli at earthlink.net
Mon Jul 10 08:58:28 CDT 2000
> From: n.haldimann at derbund.ch (Niklaus Haldimann)
>
> That leads me to a question that ocasionally pops up in mind on
> late-night coding sessions: What sort of alt-texts is one supposed to
> use for spacer images, bars and similar graphics to support text and
> audio browsers? "A spacer gif"? "A bar"?
since audio/text browsers speak the content (or display it as text),
spacer .gifs don't matter to them.. so instead of letting display as
[INLINE] or having the voice say, "image" (or whatever it says), just
us a blank alt and the browser will skip it... after all, why describe a
spacer .gif to someone who can't see it?
<img src="foo.gif" width="1" height="1" alt="">
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