- From: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:16:03 -0400
- To: public-html@w3.org, lhs@malform.no
- Cc: ian@hixie.ch
(several lists dropped from Cc) Ian wrote: > ...while providing no less information -- and arguably > more, since in the second case the image-disabled > user can't easily distinguish it from this third case: > <figure> > <p>I snapped this photo the other day while walking around the > Googleplex and saw Ian Hickson working at his desk.</p> > <legend>I snapped this photo the other day while walking around the > Googleplex and saw Ian Hickson working at his desk.</legend> > </figure> > ...which, per spec, is semantically equivalent. Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > A third bad example, again talking about the fact - > yest - that it is possible to have alt content without > having the embedded content in place. > But, why would anyone drop to place a photo inside > <figure> or forget the SRC inside <IMG>? How often > does that happen? Is it a real problem? It is pretty common for src links to be broken. It is fairly common that I can get the image anyhow by using view-source and hand-guessing the URL. I'll only know to try that if I know there was an image that got replaced with alt, rather than an original paragraph. So I might well be better off if the image has no alt of its own, and defaults to using the legend with Assistive Tech, but showing a "broken image" icon above the legend in my UA. -jJ
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