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From: Cheyrl D. Wise
Date: Oct 31, 2004 6:40PM

While for people on high bandwidth connections with no visual difficulties
the alt tag does not add to usability in way that I can see but for people
on low bandwidth connections where graphic navigation is used it can be very
useful since it allow them to navigate the site before the graphics
completely download. This is particularly useful when a person has visited a
site before and knows where they want to go but does not know the exact page
name (in other words no bookmark).

I haven't looked at the metrics you mentioned so the above is subjective but
based on observation of people on dial-up connections who are frustrated
when they have to wait for a graphics heavy site to download when all they
want to do is get to an internal page on the site.


Cheryl D. Wise
Certified Professional Web Developer
MS-MVP-FrontPage
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