- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:24:10 -0500
- To: "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: "Karl Dubost" <karl@w3.org>, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
Henri wrote: > When the markup generator has an image of unknown (to the generator) content > for which the generator does not have user-entered textual alternative, what > should the markup generator emit as the value of the alt attribute according > to your reading of WCAG 2.0? Gez Lemon addressed this 14 May 2008: > the resulting > structure is inconceivable to some users with visual impairments and > cognitive disabilities, in a way that the resulting structure would be > inconceivable to sighted users if the src attribute wasn't provided in > a browser that renders images. That is the structure is inaccessible, > and couldn't possibly be considered valid. > > Lowering conformance requirements so that authors who cannot be > bothered to provide alternative text, or allowing broken authoring > tools to be considered compliant, obviously goes a long way from > solving the fundamental problem here - that of providing content that > is accessible by users with disabilities. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008May/0343.html Best Regards, Laura -- Laura L. Carlson
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