[thelist] Site Check

[Matt]

At this point the chief advantage is for blind or sight-impaired users who may
be using a device which converts text-to-speech. By having an Alt tag, a "logo"
image, for instance", would read to them as "Logo", or if you had a gif which
had an ALT of "click "continue" to complete order", that would be spoken tothe
user.

The original use, I believe ,was so that you woulds know what the images were
if they were taking a long time to load, but as connection speeds increae
that's less and less relevant. I believe the ALT tag is one of the requirements
of the "Accessibility" regulations which require all government site to be
usable by the disabled, but someone else probably knows more about this.

Matt

Paul Backhouse wrote:

> but why? what advantage/disadvantage is/are there?
>
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> Paul,
>
> > wheres the rule that says i need to put an alt tag on every image?
>
>     Actually, the alt attribute on <img> and <area> elements is one of the
> few attributes that are actually *required* by the W3C HTML 4.01
> recommendation [1]. If an image doesn't merit descriptive text (e.g., a
> transparent gif, a bullet-point image, etc.), you should use an empty string
> as the value of the alt attribute, i.e., alt="" (and not alt=" ", as some
> might recommend).
>
> James Aylard
>
> 1. http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/objects.html#adef-alt
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