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Re: [html4all] New issue: IMG section of HTML5 draft contradicts WCAG 1 & WCAG 2 (draft)

From: Philip TAYLOR <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:06:48 +0100
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To: HTML4All <list@html4all.org>
CC: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, wai-xtech@w3.org, Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@ieee.org>, "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org> 



Henri Sivonen wrote:

> Saying that the program should emit alt='' would lose information  
> about lack of data vs. marking the image as decorative.)

Why could the program not emit something along the lines of

	'alt="<no ALT text available>"'

?

Philip TAYLOR
Received on Friday, 11 April 2008 10:07:26 GMT

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