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, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'Received on Saturday, 23 August 2008 12:39:59 UTC
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.1 : Thursday, 29 October 2015 10:15:37 UTC