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From: Nancy Johnson
Date: Sat, Sep 05 2015 2:32PM
Subject: somewhat silly question on alt tags.
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I'm curious for adding an alt if the image's purpose is to help focus
the visual user and:
- there is no link or button
-does NOT convey any important information
-nor it is a repetitive image

Should this be an empty alt or should there be a description?

Thanks

Nancy

From: Steve Faulkner
Date: Sat, Sep 05 2015 3:31PM
Subject: Re: somewhat silly question on alt tags.
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Hi Nancy,

Have a look at the advice on alt text in the HTML5 specification, it may be
helpful

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/embedded-content-0.html#alt

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On 5 September 2015 at 21:32, Nancy Johnson < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

> I'm curious for adding an alt if the image's purpose is to help focus
> the visual user and:
> - there is no link or button
> -does NOT convey any important information
> -nor it is a repetitive image
>
> Should this be an empty alt or should there be a description?
>
> Thanks
>
> Nancy
> > > > >

From: Aaron Cannon
Date: Sat, Sep 05 2015 9:37PM
Subject: Re: somewhat silly question on alt tags.
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Based on what information you've provided, I' likely leave it as an empty alt.

Aaron

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> On 2015-sep-05, at 15:32, Nancy Johnson < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
> I'm curious for adding an alt if the image's purpose is to help focus
> the visual user and:
> - there is no link or button
> -does NOT convey any important information
> -nor it is a repetitive image
>
> Should this be an empty alt or should there be a description?
>
> Thanks
>
> Nancy
> > > >

From: Jonathan C. Cohn
Date: Sun, Sep 06 2015 12:29PM
Subject: Re: somewhat silly question on alt tags.
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I would think that perhaps wrapping the associated text in a H5 or declaring the graphic to be a bullet might make sense.

Jonathan Cohn

Best wishes,

Jonathan



> On Sep 5, 2015, at 23:37, Aaron Cannon < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
> Based on what information you've provided, I' likely leave it as an empty alt.
>
> Aaron
>
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>> On 2015-sep-05, at 15:32, Nancy Johnson < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>>
>> I'm curious for adding an alt if the image's purpose is to help focus
>> the visual user and:
>> - there is no link or button
>> -does NOT convey any important information
>> -nor it is a repetitive image
>>
>> Should this be an empty alt or should there be a description?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Nancy
>> >> >> >> > > > >