There is a simple change that can be made to keep your page XHTML 1.0 Transitional when using the NextGEN Smooth Gallery Slideshow.
In the file:
/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-smooth-gallery/nggSmoothSharedFunctions.php
Change line 183 & 184. The image tag is missing the alt declaration, this adds alt=”the image title”.
The old lines are:
183 $out .= " <img src=\"" . $picture["img"] . "\" class=\"full\" />";
184 $out .= " <img src=\"" . $picture["thumb"] . "\" class=\"thumbnail\" />";
The new lines should be (line numbers are not to be considered as code):
183 $out .= " <img src=\"" . $picture["img"] . "\" class=\"full\" alt=\"" . $picture["title"] . "\" />";
184 $out .= " <img src=\"" . $picture["thumb"] . "\" class=\"thumbnail\" alt=\"" . $picture["title"] . "\" />";