Re: ALT as required attribute

> When I made the switch from IE to a Mozilla-based browser, I was initially
> disappointed when this browser did not offer Alt attribute text on
> mouse-over. It made my job as a designer more difficult, because I now

Mozilla substitutes the alt text for disabled or broken graphics and 
reflows the resulting text as though the image weren't there.  I would
have thought that made checking alt text easier.  (Turning off images
won't necessarily cause existing ones to disappear.)