[html4all] What now ALT?

[Philip Taylor (Webmaster)]

Rimantas Liubertas wrote:

>>>>  > There ARE cases when alt attribute would do more harm and hurt accessibilty
>>>>  > more than lack of it, and spec would allow you to omit it in that case.

> That's the very point: null ALT text is apropriate sometimes, and it makes sense
> to have it allowed in the specification. As you say: it is not the
> presence or lack
> of the alt attribute, it's the proper usage (or not usage).

So would you therefore agree that it is not "[the] alt attribute [that] would do
more harm and hurt accessibilty more than lack of it" but rather "[the incorrect
use of the] alt attribute [that] ..." ?  If you would, then this is no reason
for not requiring use of the attribute, but what is therefore required
in addition is a campaign to make authors aware of the correct use thereof.

Philip TAYLOR