Hi, There are no situations where use of the alt tag is useless - the null tag means that the name of the image file is not read out.
What may be useless is inappropriate positioning and the wording of the alt tag. Here's aa example of coding where appropriate positioning with meaningful alt text (or null alt text) should have been used, but wasn't: <span class="sentence"> We have been involved in professional computing for more <img src="graphics/8221.gif" alt="leftquote graphic" class="graphic right"/> than 20 years and have 11 years experience in web page design and implementation. </span> (yes, they also didn't code the img end-tag correctly) This reads: "We have been involved in professional computing for more leftquote graphic than 20 years ... " Here the image should be positioned at the end of a quoted paragraphs (with CSS for visual positioning) and have more meaningful alt-text such as "unquote" (with the corresponding "quote" at the beginning) - they certainly don't need to be told it's a graphic. In this case the user does not want to know the content of the graphic, but rather it's semantic meaning in the document structure - a simple but all too common mistake. Stuart On Sun, September 9, 2007 11:42 am, Designer wrote: > > Hi Georg, > > I think we are just splitting hairs now. What I said in my conclusion > was: > > a) I personally do use alt tags, every time : (In other words, I agree > with you in principle) and > > b) but I am aware of situations where they are pretty useless. (In other > words I know their limitations in certain cases and can see why it is > being suggested that they are 'optional'. > > -- > Bob > > www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
