Re: [Lynx-dev] (OT) Q: best way to hide ECMAscript-only things

[David Dorward]

On 24 Sep 2009, at 17:44, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > For the MirOS Logo, simply using an empty alt attribute (alt="")
> > would hide it
>
> Yes, but that's invalid XHTML

No, it isn't. It is the recommended approach for images which have no  
meaning in the document.

However, it sounds like the image does have meaning, but requires JS  
to function, so alt="" would not be suitable (since, for example, an  
Internet Explorer users dependent on JAWS for interacting with a  
document would not be able to know what the JS did.

Incidentally,  the alt attribute should be an alternative to the  
image, not a description of it. http://www.alanflavell.org.uk/alt/alt-text.html 
 is worth a read.

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David Dorward
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