Thank you for the update and link Patrick, that's good to know.
> It's an outdated piece of advice. Old screen readers did not cope with
> empty alts, so alt="*" was suggested as a viable default: screen
> readers apparently didn't read that out on normal settings.
>
> However, nowadays the sug
Sarah Peeke (XERT) wrote:
I recently stumbled across a site (sorry lost the reference now) that
made reference to the fact that an asterisk should be used inside an ALT
attribute (eg alt="*") when the image is only used for presentation
purposes.
Apparantly this is helpful for screen readers.
On 10/5/05, Sarah Peeke (XERT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I recently stumbled across a site (sorry lost the reference now) that
> made reference to the fact that an asterisk should be used inside an ALT
> attribute (eg alt="*") when the image is only used for presentation
> purposes.
Maybe it wa
Hi all
I recently stumbled across a site (sorry lost the reference now) that
made reference to the fact that an asterisk should be used inside an ALT
attribute (eg alt="*") when the image is only used for presentation
purposes.
Apparantly this is helpful for screen readers.
Can anyone reaffirm t
