[whatwg] ALT and equivalent representation

Shannon shannon at arc.net.au
Sat Apr 19 07:24:16 PDT 2008


Henri Sivonen wrote:
>
> Instead of having a layer of validitity speculation in between, 
> couldn't you make the point that alt helps with SEO? To me linking alt 
> and SEO directly is more to the point and more honest, too.
>

Whoa, don't do that! They'll just insist on you stuffing 100 characters 
worth of keywords in there. You can add insanity to the problems facing 
blind users on the web!

Shannon



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