[thelist] To ALT or not to ALT?

[Shirley Kaiser, SKDesigns]

Hi,

Days later I finally remembered an article about using "alt" tags that you 
may find helpful. It goes into a lot of detail, but there's also an 
overview chart for a quick breakdown.

Use of ALT texts in IMGs
by Alan J. Flavell
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/alt/alt-text.html

Hope this is helpful.

Warmly,
Shirley
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At 08:20 AM 01/11/2001, Eric Benvenue-Jennings wrote:

>On 1/10/01 at 3:39 PM, Erika Meyer <meyer at up.edu> wrote:
>
> > The W3C validator DOES claim that they forgot to close a DIV (could be a
> > very bad thing if true).  And there are no "alt" tags (empty or otherwise)
> > on the many spacer gifs.
>
>Taking a tangent...
>
>Is there any benefit to using empty ALT tags besides passing validation 
>tests?
>
>I guess the question should be, how do screen readers handle empty ALT 
>tags as opposed to missing ALT tags?
>
>Are there any other reasons, besides validation and screen readers, to use 
>empty ALT tags instead of just leaving them out?