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

Jan Richards wrote:
> Yes of course there is a psychological/motivational component to getting 
> authors who can see to spend extra time describing their images.  But 
> this is familiar territory for any software with human users.

Yeah.  And most such software doesn't do very well on this ground, to be honest....

> Similarly, describing images for people who can't see them 
> is an (emerging) social convention for communication. And tools to 
> efficiently support this new convention are certainly possible.

This is a general statement of principle that I think we all agree on.  The 
question is how we get there, and whether requiring alt attributes in all cases 
is the right way to do it.

-Boris