Re: Accessibility: ALT for blank images with " " or ""?

"Murilo Pinto" <xaraya-Mm/[email protected]> wrote in message
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> In Brazil, most recommend the use of "spaced" ALT for images completely
> meaningless. As all over the world, the recommendation is quite different,
> I'd like to check w/ you what's your tech opinion on this one.
>
> I think that "aural" browsers will read the spaced ALT as a pause, a
comma.
> The null ALT, on the other hand, will be simply ignored, as it should be
for
> images conveying no information at all. Am I right? Furthermore, is there
a
> standard on this issue, like a w3 guideline?

I have no idea on this one at all to be honest.  I would imagine that the
space would be treated as a character, while no space as a NULL, but I have
never given it a test to be honest.  The use of the alt though is to give a
reference to what the image is for browsers that do not display the image
(either text browser, images turned off, missing image).  I have always just
used the no space variety for images that I do not want a refernce for
because of design choices.