[thelist] the use of lynx

**1st Vamp** wes at pmason.karoo.co.uk
Wed Feb 27 06:46:01 CST 2002


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And there is also the matter of alt tags now being mandatory for HTML
4.0,4.01 and XHTML 1.0 specs.

- - Vamp

Wednesday, February 27, 2002, 8:05:58 AM, Steve Cook wrote:

> The first thing I think of when reading your comments about alt tags is that
> you are being a little short-sighted by matching the audience who will see
> the alt tags with the people who use Lynx to view the site.

> What about:
>         People with low bandwidth who turn off images to save time
>         The visually impaired
>         The times when your site is answering so many requests that it keeps
> timing out, but the information in the alt tags allows people to make sense
> of the site even though the images aren't loading.

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