Re: Accessibility

Hilary Marsh wrote:

> Actually, it's my understanding that EVERY image needs an alt tag, but 
> that for decorative images -- and especially spacers -- it should be 
> <alt=" ">. If there is no alt tag, a screen reader that "speaks" a Web 
> page for blind users will say "image," and that is exactly what you 
> don't want to happen.


Hi Hillary,

You are confusing a tag, for example '<p>' -- which is a start tag. 
'</p>' is an end tag. '<p>blah blah</p>' is an element.

"alt" is an attribute of the image element. It can be present with an 
empty value, for example '<img alt=""/>'
-- this is a valid use of the alt attribute. So for candy images the 
screen reader won't speak.

best,
-Rob

>
> --Hilary