Hi Simon, If you have an image for purely presentational purposes then you can use a blank alt attribute
alt="" However, if it's purely for presentational purposes then you should really apply it using CSS as a background image ;o) Thanks Dave http://www.dave-woods.co.uk On 26/10/2007, Simon Cockayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/ > > "Guideline 1. Provide equivalent alternatives to auditory and visual > content" > "1.1 Provide a text equivalent for every non-text element (e.g., via "alt", > "longdesc", or in element content). This includes: images, graphical > representations of text (including symbols), image map regions, animations > (e.g., animated GIFs), applets and programmatic objects, ascii art, frames, > scripts, images used as list bullets, spacers, graphical buttons, sounds > (played with or without user interaction), stand-alone audio files, audio > tracks of video, and video. [Priority 1]" > > > Cheers, > > Simon > > ******************************************************************* > 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] *******************************************************************
