Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
>>>>>> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>:
>
>> On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:39:20 +0100 Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote: 
>>>>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:
>>>> ..., and the alt texts are often just the url itself, so it's awkward.
>
> SB> In the early days of the web, 1994 or thereabouts, I experimented with
> SB> putting ASCII art versions of the image in tha alt attribute.
>
> SB> I was quickly told to stop doing that.
>
>> Why?
>
> Well the argument used by one person was that he used lynx to read the
> web pages, because it was fast.  And my ASCII art got in the way of the
> fast aquiring of information.
>
> Imagine that!

Nowadays, I guess that screen-readers would have trouble too. "hyphen
hyphen slash slash slash..."

Rupert