- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:51:04 -0500
- To: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Cc: public-html-wg-issue-tracking <public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org>
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 07:25 +0000, HTML Issue Tracking Issue Tracker wrote: > ISSUE-58 (curly alt): Use of "curly brackets" to identify a graphical image by its use or type by inserting a generic identifier / descriptor in curly braces as the @alt value for an IMG, [HTML 5 spec] > > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/58 > > Raised by: Joshue O Connor > On product: HTML 5 spec > > On behalf of Gregory Rosmaita. Joshue, did you miss the earlier discussion of discretion in adding issues? "Adding an issue to the tracker creates a burden for the whole group, so it's not the sort of thing we should do at the request of just one person." -- http://www.w3.org/mid/1212075050.4651.942.camel@pav.lan > The suggested "curly bracket" technique is insufficient, it constitutes > both an abuse of the alt attribute and does not satisfy the WCAG > requirement that alt text contains a textual equivalent of the image... That's pretty clearly a position on an issue, not an issue itself. I'm inclined to close this as a dup of ISSUE-31 missing-alt http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/31 -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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