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

Thank you all very much.

I'll sum those comments up and try to change something down here...

Thanks again,
Murilo
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> > 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.
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> > Here is just one reference:
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/htm/
> xml_concepts_9mzp.asp
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> There will be notes on trimming in the W3C docs too (but I can never find
my
> way around them;).
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> For that reason, I just use an empty string.
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> Having said that, I think it does all depend on the DTD and the browser.
> IE5.x will pop up a box for an anchor 'title' attribute full of spaces,
> Mozilla will not. Neither browser trims spaces from a title attribute. So
it
> all comes down to whether the XHTML specs state whether the alt attribute
of
> an image tag should be trimmed or not. If it should, then I guess the page
> readers should not be distinguishing between a space and an empty alt
> attribute. But I'm not an expert in these matters, so that could be all
> wrong ;-)
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> -- JJ
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