Re: DRAFT response Re[2]: Request for PFWG WAI review of Omitting alt Attribute for Critical Content

In that case, I agree with the proposa.

On Nov 27, 2007, at 8:57 PM, Jason White wrote:


On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 06:48:54PM -0500, David Poehlman wrote:
> Surely, there is no element or attribute anywhere in any spec that  
> would
> say, when you publish your documents, not only must you use an alt  
> attrib,
> you also must write into it that the image is not important if it is  
> not
> important.

The proposal is:

ALT="text" means that "text" is an alternative to the image.
alt="" means that the image is purely decorative or used only as  
formatting.

Omitting @alt entirely is not allowed, as a matter of syntax, as in  
HTML 4.01.

There is nothing new or unusual here; this is how specifications  
prescribe
syntax and semantics.

Of course, there might be substantive objections to the proposal, but  
this
isn't one of them.