Nov 10, 2009
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validation isn’t everything

nikography:

to demonstrate, i’ll walk you through an example. let’s say you’re working on a video site and there is a section consisting of a list of episodes. they are displayed in list form, with a thumbnail and the title of the video as linked text. (sound familiar?)

by w3c standards, all of those little thumbnails ought to have alternate text. the validator-botgod says so. well, what exactly should the text be?

What’s wrong with descriptive text that describes what the image is: “Thumbnail of Video Title”?

However, the latest spec suggests an empty alt tag.

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    is: “Thumbnail...Video Title”? However, the latest spec suggests
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