Re: Alt tag required for horizontal dividing bar

"James Craig" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.w3c.accessibility.general
Message-ID <004001c2cecf$63465120$c8280f0a@JCRAIG>
I would use an <hr /> tag as well, but if you decide to use an empty alt for
any spacer images, always use alt="" (with no space in between the quotes).
Using alt=" " will display a distractingly empty tooltip on some browsers
(like Windows IE)... alt="" will not. Most Mac-only users don't realize this
because MacIE/Safari/etc don't display any alt values as tooltips. Safari
doesn't even display title values. :(

James


----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Roberts
Subject: Re: Alt tag required for horizontal dividing bar

On a purely decorative item that has no informational context in the page, I
would go with " ".

Tim
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