On Fri, 15 May 2009 23:20:55 +1200
Came this utterance formulated by Michael to my mailbox:

> 
> On Fri, 15 May 2009 23:14:27 Sid Bachtiar wrote:
> > I think it means you should not have empty alt ... like alt="".
> 
> Could be. I thought it was referring to the product images. I took the
> word 'spacer' out of the alt tag for the spacer images (and left the
> alt tag blank), because it complained about that too.
> 

1. Background images in CSS do not need ALT attributes (ALT is not a
tag).

Your spacer images should have empty ALT attributes.

http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/#gl-provide-equivalents
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/altAttribute

http://diveintoaccessibility.org/day_21_ignoring_spacer_images.html


-- 
Michael

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be well

 - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416

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