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Addison Phillips <addison@lab126.com> changed:
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--- Comment #2 from Addison Phillips <addison@lab126.com> 2010-10-05 22:13:51 UTC ---
It is common enough for 'alt' to have been commented negatively on for a long
time. The problem with 'alt' (and 'title') is that they refer to some content
that itself might not be "directional". Consider:
<img src="somePhoto.jpg" height="200" width="200" alt="TFEL-OT-THGIR
description">
"somePhoto.jpg" doesn't really have a text direction. We don't want any
mirroring-type behavior. We want to set the alt text direction because the
surrounding context may not match direction, since it isn't that unusual to
have the value of the 'alt' attribute filled in at runtime.
A more extreme example might be:
<p dir="rtl">some arabic
<img src="ObamaPhoto.jpg" alt="Barack Obama" title="Mixed English and
Arabic" />
even more arabic
</p>
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