[thelist] Accessibility Question

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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>I understand how to alt text the useful image ... but what do you do with
those other buggers?

>Is [alt=""] the best answer?

>From the horse's mouth:

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/objects.html#h-13.8
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/objects.html#h-13.8

"Do not specify irrelevant alternate text when including images intended to
format a page, for instance, alt="red ball" would be inappropriate for an
image that adds a red ball for decorating a heading or paragraph. In such
cases, the alternate text should be the empty string (""). Authors are in
any case advised to avoid using images to format pages; style sheets should
be used instead. "

>RonL.
>(Newly 'deputized' internal accessibility guru.)

hey, nice turnaround on getting that role

Cheers
Martin


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