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?

Just from an XML point of view, I believe parsed attributes are trimmed of
spaces anyway, so I would not rely on a space doing anything different to an
empty attribute, unless you want to include the space in a CDATA section.

Here is just one reference: