[thelist] Good alt texts [was .gif texts]

[aardvark]

> 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="">