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Re: Alt Tag [sic] Pedantry

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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Feb 16, 2006 1:20PM

> Are you agreeing with me here, or are you trying to call me
> supercilious for defending the populist "alt tag" as acceptable slang?

Inbred slang, which keeps up the myth that accessibility a technical
issue. I actually found that when I deal with content editors or
totally internet development unaware people

"You'll have to provide alternative text for images, videos and
speeches in audio format"

helps a lot more than a cryptic "alt tag" (is that in the back of my
shirt?) or "alt text". Alt has no meaning, except in German, where it
means old.

HTH
Chris

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