[Wolves] mozilla annoyances ?

[Aquarius]

sparkes spoo'd forth:
> On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 07:37, Aquarius wrote:
> There is one thing I would like to add to this discussion.  Sometimes
> images are used for things other than conveying information.  This is
> wrong but it should be an acceptable wrong.  If an image has "*" as it's
> alt attribute it should be ignored by screen readers and browsers.  This
> should become a part of the standard.  In fact lack of the alt attribute
> should be a flogging offence ;-)

Rubbish. Alt text is there as an alternative to the image, so it's the
text that should appear in a text-only rendition of that document. 
<img src="foo.png" alt=""> is perfectly reasonable; if the image doesn't
add anything required to the text, just give it blank alt text. No image
should have an alt text of "*", since "*" isn't a good piece of text. If
you're using images as bullets, then stop doing it and use CSS, specifically
list-style-image.

Aq.

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