- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:56:23 -0500
- To: "Karl Dubost" <karl@w3.org>
- Cc: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>, "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>, "Al Gilman" <alfred.s.gilman@ieee.org>, "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, "Chris Wilson" <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, wai-liaison@w3.org, "Gez Lemon" <gez.lemon@gmail.com>, "Joshue O Connor" <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>, "Steve Faulkner" <sfaulkner@paciellogroup.com>, "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, "Jason White" <jason@jasonjgw.net>
Hi Karl, > I have followed the discussion around this for a very long time. Me too. Thorough details and history from September 2007 to date http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/IssueAltAttribute ISSUE 31 missing-alt http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/31 ACTION-54 draft text for the spec. A group of us have worked this: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/actions/54 ACTION 54: First Draft http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/Action54AltAttribute Discussion Page for HTML WG Action 54 First Draft http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/Action54AltAttributeDiscussion ACTION 54: Start of second draft http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/Action54AltAttributeSecondDraft Request for PF Review (March 2008) http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Mar/0234.html Second Request for PF review (April 2008) http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Apr/0408.html Third Request for PF review (August 2008) http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2008Aug/0024.html > interesting use cases are described but I fear the list could go and go on. I agree. > 1. I would just keep alt attribute requirements to the functional > requirements, such as if images are not loaded the content of the alt > attribute must be displayed. > 2. The specific requirements on accessibility such as the content of the > alt attribute depending on the use cases should be entirely left to WCAG. Do you mean something like in the second draft of the image section rewrite? http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/Action54AltAttributeSecondDraft#head-f2fc9a989269cce19dd470126eb7df7c46667099 > The specification would then be lighter, could have a pointer saying all the > requirements for accessibility are defined in wcag 2.0. http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/Action54AltAttributeSecondDraft#head-f0bf2ebf9f3e1fa190974101c6b70700ff176772 > For the class of products of > * search engines, functional requirement: indexing the text content. > * conformance checker: it is highly encouraged that conformance checker > developers implement the WCAG requirements on alt attribute. > * authoring tools, functional requirement: provide a way to edit the alt > attribute. http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/Action54AltAttributeSecondDraft#head-515ffad34aa5d3f21a87c7bfca0bdc5721162d6e Thanks. Best Regards, Laura -- Laura L. Carlson
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