in reply to clearpixel alt texts

Juerd: you should probably use a title like "(OT) clearpixel". The (OT) let's people know that this thread is off-topic. I use that quite a bit and so far I haven't been flamed for it :) That being said, you could use alt="" to set the text to nothing, but there are several browsers out there for visually impaired people and I suspect that they will handle that differently.

With proper CSS, you could eliminate the clear pixels entirely. Even if the gif exists, sometimes a browser will fail to load it and then you get a bunch of broken images in your browser. Very unprofessional.

Cheers,
Ovid

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Re: (Ovid) Re: clearpixel alt texts
by Juerd (Abbot) on Dec 16, 2001 at 23:13 UTC
    I'm not quite sure if this is off topic... Please explain to me why it is.

    As for the alt-attribute: browsers for the visually impaired display (through text, braille or speech) whatever is in the alt-attribute. They should not and fortunately do not say a thing when alt is set but empty. If it's not set at all, some do nothing, some display the picture's filename.
    Correct CSS would indeed be a better solution.

    This is what links displays: 
       clearpixel
   (concentrate on your petition)                      clearpixelJoe
   clearpixel ____________________ [ searchbutton ]        perlmonks

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    Alt should provide alternative text for images that need it, or no text for images that are just for layout or decoration. 
    2;0 juerd@ouranos:~$ perl -e'undef christmas'
Segmentation fault
2;139 juerd@ouranos:~$

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