On Sun, September 9, 2007 4:33 pm, Michael Yeaney wrote: > I find it interesting that everyone responding to this thread has failed > to > mention one very important aspect of any design-for-accessibility debate: > Until you actually test it with a target audience/persona (i.e., someone > who > actually **is** blind), we're all just guessing at the relative importance > of the issue at hand. Keep in mind, that some may hear the page read > aloud > and think 'Sheesh - enough with the graphics descriptions that keep > interrupting the text flow of the page'...
> Mike > Sorry, I thought it had been made pretty clear that you should add images and their corresponding alt-text appropriately, i.e. they should NEVER interrupt the flow of the page. To write inappropriate alt-text is wrong and is against the guidelines - which is to use alt-text to provide an alternative to essential information in images which is not provided elsewhere and to use null alt-text where they don't contain such information (unless being used as a structural element). ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
