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From: Leslie K. Yoder
Date: Sat, Jul 20 2002 12:25PM
Subject: decorative graphics
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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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From: John Foliot - bytown internet
Date: Sat, Jul 20 2002 1:13PM
Subject: RE: decorative graphics
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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 ADDRESS 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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From: Leslie K. Yoder
Date: Sat, Jul 20 2002 3:27PM
Subject: Re: decorative graphics
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Thanks, John.
That's always been my impression (that alt="" is perfectly okay for images
without significant content), which is why the Dreamweaver accessibility
tool stumped me. I thought maybe there was some new Sect. 508 rule I didn't
know about.
Thanks again,
Leslie
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From: "John Foliot - bytown internet" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
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Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 1:07 PM
Subject: RE: decorative graphics
> 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 ADDRESS 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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