[uf-new] img alt content statistics
Andy Mabbett
andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk
Sat Jul 14 12:05:15 PDT 2007
In message <4698F9F1.1060409 at digitalbazaar.com>, Manu Sporny
<msporny at digitalbazaar.com> writes
>The percentages below are the percentages of img tags that contained
>non-empty attributes:
>
>src: 99%
>height: 66%
>width: 66%
>alt: 41%
>title: 5%
>id: 4%
>
>In general, only 41% of 'img' tags list non-empty 'alt' attributes. In
>other words - most websites are not using 'alt' attributes for 'img'
>tags.
That's a bogus conclusion - empty "alt" attributes are perfectly valid,
and are appropriate in many cases; and you're counting tags but making
conclusions about "most websites".
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Andy Mabbett
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