- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:46:06 -0600
- To: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- Cc: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Matt May <mattmay@adobe.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, public-html-a11y@w3.org
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com> wrote: > Then there's the issue of performance -- authoring tools only have to > try to determine the alt text once. Do we really want every user agent > to attempt the same process every time the web page is opened? For > every image? What's the alternative? If neither the author nor the authoring tool fills in the alt-text, do we just shrug our shoulders and say "Sorry, blind people, guess you're out of luck."? It seems pretty obvious that the correct solution for accessibility is to address this issue at *all* levels. The earlier the better, but it's not excusable to fail users with accessibility needs when we *can* do something to help them. I'm just behind a slight softening of the spec text, as Lachlan and Maciej have suggested. ~TJ
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