- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:20:58 -0500
- To: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- CC: public-html@w3.org, wai-xtech@w3.org
Steven Faulkner wrote: > Two images without explicitly associated text alternatives. > 1 is an image is decorative that the author has accidently left off > the alt, the other is "critical content" I agree that this is a problem. But if both have alt="", you have the same issue, with the additional problem that the UA can't really try to guess based on image analysis (unless the UA just starts ignoring alt="" altogether). The real question is how to maximally motivate authors and authoring tools to add alt text whenever they can without forcing them to add incorrect (and alt="" on a non-decorative image is incorrect) alt text. It's a psychology question, not a technical one.... Have we considered finding a psychology expert to ask? -Boris
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