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From: John Foliot - bytown internet
Date: Jul 20, 2002 1:13PM

PLEASE DON'T!!

alt="" is perfectly legit. there are going to be times when your judgement
MUST over-rule what a program "tells" you. If the images are truely
spacers, etc., then leave the alt text as: alt=""

Verify your document against a validator, you will see that a SGML parser is
very happy with this, and screen readers such as IBM HPR and JAWS will skip
over these items.

JF

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leslie K. Yoder [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: July 20, 2002 3:21 PM
> To: WebAIM
> Subject: decorative graphics
>
>
> Hi. I'm new here and have a question for you: I recently started working
> with the Section 508 Accessibility extension to Dreamweaver
> (4.01), and I'm
> getting "fails" on decorative images with null alt text (alt="").
> As far as
> I can tell, the tool only recognizes null alt text as legit for
> spacer (size
> 1) gifs. Is this the case, or am I missing something obvious?
>
> Do I have to rename these images to include the word "spacer"?
>
> Thanks!
> Leslie
>
>
>
>
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