JerryOdom - 11:14 pm on Aug 4, 2008 (gmt 0)

In the recent mobile device development books I've been using the authors like to state that you should use alt text for devices that don't support images.

I tend to agree that the alt should only be important when the image is relevant and some information would be lost by a reader not having access to it. But non-important image could be included for the sake of comleteness.(page authors discretion)