- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:14:17 -0700
- To: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, Steve Faulkner <sfaulkner@paciellogroup.com>, Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>, Matt Morgan-May <mattmay@adobe.com>, "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
Hi Laura, Thanks for filing all these bugs (I saw them pop up in bugzilla) and sorry for the late reply. I do have one comment still. On Mar 1, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Laura Carlson wrote: > >>> 8. I've drafted bug to enable automatic validators to >>> programmatically >>> determine the presence or absence of a set of text alternatives as >>> HTML4 did with alt: >>> http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Bugs/ProgrammaticallyDetermineTextAlternatives >>> Any suggested text or ideas to improve the bug text? >> >>> I don't understand this bug. Are you saying that it's currently >>> not possible >>> for validators to programmatically determine the presence or >>> absence of text >>> alternatives? > > Yes. Is this a wrong interpretation? Will the validator throw an error > if one of the options in the set is not provided? Can the validator > determine a missing text alternative in HTML5 as it could for alt in > HTML4? As far as I can tell, the text here requires validators to report an error if alt is absent and none of the conditions applies: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#guidance-for-conformance-checkers "A conformance checker must report the lack of an alt attribute as an error unless one of the conditions listed below applies:..." That seems equivalent to me to what is in your Change Proposal. You have a slightly different set of conditions, but I do not see how your set is more programmatically checkable than the one currently in the draft. Therefore, I believe the following bug is based on an incorrect assumption: <http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9213> Presumably it will get resolved as WORKSFORME or something, but you could close it yourself if you agree with my interpretation above. Regards, Maciej
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