- From: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 10:28:30 +0100
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
have added bug add rationale for providing an alt when inline description is available http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9678 On 7 May 2010 02:14, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote: > On Fri, 07 May 2010 07:06:02 +0900, Steven Faulkner > <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I'm the editor for the following document >> HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives >> http://dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/ >> and am requesting that the HTML WG publish it as a FPWD, preferably >> along with the next round of heartbeat publications targeted for >> next month > > Admittedly I only skimmed through the document for a few minutes, so maybe I > missed the answer, but it seems that in Example 2.3 it is not explained what > the advantage of including an alternative text in the first place is. If > there is a full description it seems one could just use alt="". > > > -- > Anne van Kesteren > http://annevankesteren.nl/ > -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG Europe Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org Web Accessibility Toolbar - http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
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