[WSG] Use of asterisk in ALT

Hi all I recently stumbled across a site (sorry lost the reference now) that made reference to the fact that an asterisk should be used inside an ALT attribute (eg alt=*) when the image is only used for presentation purposes. Apparantly this is helpful for screen readers. Can anyone reaffirm

Re: [WSG] Use of asterisk in ALT

On 10/5/05, Sarah Peeke (XERT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently stumbled across a site (sorry lost the reference now) that made reference to the fact that an asterisk should be used inside an ALT attribute (eg alt=*) when the image is only used for presentation purposes. Maybe it was

Re: [WSG] Use of asterisk in ALT

Sarah Peeke (XERT) wrote: I recently stumbled across a site (sorry lost the reference now) that made reference to the fact that an asterisk should be used inside an ALT attribute (eg alt=*) when the image is only used for presentation purposes. Apparantly this is helpful for screen readers.

Re: [WSG] Use of asterisk in ALT

Thank you for the update and link Patrick, that's good to know. It's an outdated piece of advice. Old screen readers did not cope with empty alts, so alt=* was suggested as a viable default: screen readers apparently didn't read that out on normal settings. However, nowadays the suggested