Re: Another HTML5 alt conformance question for clarification

it should state that alt is required as I said before and let others provide 
guidance as to how it should be provided.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
To: "Laura Carlson" <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
Cc: "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>; <public-html@w3.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 5:19 AM
Subject: Re: Another HTML5 alt conformance question for clarification



On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, Laura Carlson wrote:
>
> In the editor's draft is the alt attribute required to be conforming?
> Must it be present?

If you look through this section:

   http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#alt

...you will see a number of "must" requirements that do indeed require the
alt="" attribute. The requirements are in fact much more detailed than
just requiring that the attribute be present; they also specify what the
attribute value must be in each of a large number of cases.

HTH,
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