T Carr wrote: > > Morten Nilsen wrote: > > > > > Text browsers care about the alt property of images. That's all they show. > > If you want *everyone* to be able to view your page, it is recommended > > to put something useful in the alt properties of images > > Name one text only browser that people use a lot. I cannot think of one. > And who cares if no one can see a transparent.gif. Its transparent for > Petes Sake.
Lynx is still very common. Text browsers are very important to, say, blind people using screenreaders. I had a blind friend back in college who had to use DOS with a text browser and screen reader (or occasionally his braille pad). ALT text is also important for speech browsers. Anyway, this is the easiest HTML-compliance error to fix, ever. Simply add ALT="" to any IMG tag for an image that has no meaning. Voila! The validator magically stops complaining about lack of an ALT tag. Amazing.
