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From: Estelle Weyl
Date: Oct 30, 2004 1:39PM

Think cell phones. Think low bandwidth. Think lynx, and other imageless
browsing experiences.

Also, sometimes I see an image and wonder what it is - a simple mouse over
gives me more information.
Sometimes I get to a site, and they moved their image directory, or wrote
their JavaScript incorrectly, or have a typo in the code and the image just
doesn't come thru. With an alt tag we are not left wondering.

Many designers code with Dreamweaver. When you change a folder into a new
directory in DW it updates the links to images, but not the image calls in
JavaScript. I often find web pages where the image rollover effect is broken
and the images don't appear. That would be a prime example of when having
an alt tag helps the sited user.

Estelle Weyl
http://www.EvoTech.net
415.845.9906
Helping make the web accessible since 1999