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Re:Top validation errors by jaimeiniesta on Saturday June 16, 2012 @08:07AM (#4120449)
It's interesting to see the validation for Hacker News:

http://w3clove.com/sitemaps/check?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycom...

You wouldn't tell there were so many images, would you? Should they have an "alt" attribute?

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Re:Top validation errors by DanBC on Saturday June 16, 2012 @08:59AM (#4120551)
They are functional. They need an alt tag. Having [grayarrow.gif] and [graydown.gif] is sub-optimal.
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Re:Top validation errors by TazeTSchnitzel on Saturday June 16, 2012 @09:16AM (#4120571)
While we're at it, we should stop using tables, too.
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Re:Top validation errors by olavk on Saturday June 16, 2012 @08:20AM (#4120475)
It is probably the up/down arrows.
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Re:Top validation errors by jaimeiniesta on Saturday June 16, 2012 @08:27AM (#4120481)
sure, it's the arrows. Should this be done with characters, instead? Maybe CSS? This would be indeed a good case of using "alt"... alt="vote up", alt="vote down"
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Re:Top validation errors by mistercow on Saturday June 16, 2012 @11:28AM (#4120833)
I think most of those are up/down arrows.
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