The ALT tag is required for accessibility, Jeff. I understand that
people who can't see the page will have software that reads the text
and the ALT tag serves for the graphics.
See the web accessibility initiative page for more information:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Chris
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On 14 Jan 2006, at 23:22, Jeff Keller wrote:
> Out of curiousity I ran a page through http://validator.w3.org It
> looks
> like the ALT tag is required for strict 4.01.
>
> The only invalid thing Front Page is doing with my very simple
> pages is
> inserting a width attribute for table cells. (The validator told me
> I should
> have a DOCTYPE specified also but that's my fault).
>
> I guess I don't see enough benefit to adding a TITLE tag when the
> ALT tag is
> required for compliance ... I'm going to be lazy and leave it as it
> is.
>
> Thanks again for the education!!!
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