Re: User supplying image but not text alternative

On Aug 21, 2008, at 16:25, Jan Richards wrote:

> Just to clarify, I didn't say ATAG ever requires "alt" to be omitted.

OK.

> All I meant was that ATAG doesn't have a strict requirement that  
> tools always create "valid" code (where valid is defined by a markup  
> language's authors).

My concern is rather that ATAG shouldn't require agents to produce  
output that doesn't conform to the syntax of the file format that the  
agent outputs. A previous statement by a former editor of ATAG made me  
think that ATAG might have required agents to violate the file format  
syntax in the case I described, but I was unable to verify this by  
reading the spec text myself.

> In a future HTML then it would be nice to have a valid way of  
> differentiating (a) from (b). An example was Matt May's @noalt which  
> an HTML generator could add. I commented on Matt's proposal here: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2008May/0199.html

Do I understand correctly that ATAG 2.0 doesn't cover the case of  
uncooperative users in the context of HTML 4?

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Henri Sivonen
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Received on Saturday, 23 August 2008 15:39:55 UTC