Also sprach Stephen Bain:
And the speech browsers.
Indeed. That's always going to be a small portion of the user base but it's very important that things work for such browsers.
Agreed.
From the point of view of such users removing the alt attributes on images is a bad idea.
Note that Wikipedia's current markup for thumnnail images only use one alt attribute and it's empty:
<div class="thumb tleft"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:182px;"> <a href="/wiki/File:Bryggen_(6-2007).jpg" class="image" title="Bryggen in Bergen is on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites."> <img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/
The only reason for keeping it is to claim validity wrt. some DTDs. Personally, I'd rather remove it.
Cheers,
-h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome