Oh man Oh man

bah, stupid people make the world a rough place

[karmov]

The guy who handles all the web pages where my girlfriend works just made her remove all the alt tags I suggested she should put into a page she made. Wanna know why?

'Cause he doesn't like alt tags.

Grumble grumble grumble...

Not going to pretend I follow all of the rules all of the time, but I try hard. I mean come on... the alt tags were already there...

[Visit Thailand]

Without alt tags your page won't vaildate.

[karmov]

I'm well aware of that... He's not... Just felt the need to rant about people that bother me to people who would understand what the problem is :)

[ukgimp]

Remember the Australian Official Olympic website fiasco? IBM forgot to include ALT tags and the cost of fixing it was in the million range. Tsk tsk. A simple change cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The new law will help avoid such a simple oversight in the future. When done right the first time, the cost won't be so high.

www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2001june/gee20010601006141.htm

Show him stuff like this, and mention that he will likely foot the bill, scare tactics I know, but these boys thought "so what!"

Also get him to browese the page with the images off and say that 10-15% (not sure on that figure but it cant be ignored).

You could send in a few mood emails from friends saying "why do you have no alt tags, i cant navigate your site and as such bought of your competitor. Bye"

Cheers

[hayluke]

They are also needed to make your page compliant with most disability guidelines.