[thelist] alt tags on all images (was Site Check)
noah
noah at tookish.net
Wed Nov 7 12:36:11 CST 2001
At 01:29 PM 07/11/2001, aardvark wrote:
>download Lynx, view that site, read it aloud...
>
>you could also get a browser for the disabled, but Lynx is a good
>one to have for a myriad of reasons...
>
>i'd much rather see a page of:
>
>"Welcome to Foobar"
>
>than:
>
>[IMAGE][IMAGE][IMAGE][IMAGE]"Welcome to
>Foobar"[IMAGE][IMAGE][IMAGE][IMAGE][IMAGE][IMAGE][IMAGE
>][IMAGE][IMAGE][IMAGE][IMAGE][IMAGE]
>
>and if that can be achieved by using (valid and correct) empty alt
>attributes in all my image tags, then you can be darn sure i'm
>going to include them...
I see . . . I guess I'll shift my frustration away from the W3C and towards
the browser makers - it just seems to me that if a browser can not display
an image, and there's no alt text, it should ignore the image altogether,
and display nothing.
I can't think of a single circumstance in which a browser telling you
[IMAGE] is of any use whatsoever, and it seems a little silly to me that we
have to include extra code in every image tag to avoid this.
Cheers,
Noah.
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