On 24 Sep 2009, at 17:44, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
For the MirOS Logo, simply using an empty alt attribute (alt="")
would hide it
Yes, but that's invalid XHTML
No, it isn't. It is the recommended approach for images which have no
meaning in the document.
However, it sounds like the image does have meaning, but requires JS
to function, so alt="" would not be suitable (since, for example, an
Internet Explorer users dependent on JAWS for interacting with a
document would not be able to know what the JS did.
Incidentally, the alt attribute should be an alternative to the
image, not a description of it. http://www.alanflavell.org.uk/alt/alt-text.html
is worth a read.
--
David Dorward
http://dorward.me.uk
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