RE: [html4all] New issue: IMG section of HTML5 draft contradicts WCAG 1 & WCAG 2 (draft)

>There are people who upload literally thousands of photos a week. If a 
>photo takes one minute to describe, which is probably optimisic, that's 
>two full days' worth of work per week just to describe the photos. That's 
>not happening. Even people who upload 10 photos a month don't care enough 
>to describe their photos.
>
>You might be able to get some people to describe some of the most popular 
>photos, but there's no way that's going to scale to all photos on all 
>photo galleries, so the problem of what to do with photos that have no 
>useful alternative text will always exist.
>
>-- 
>Ian Hickson


Which is a good reason why alt text needs to be required by this spec (HTML5).

People will continue to commit crimes and break the law........but it that a reason not to have them?

* katie *

Katie Haritos-Shea 
Section 508 Technical Policy Analyst

703-371-5545

People may forget exactly what it was that you said or did, 
but they will never forget how you made them feel.......

Received on Friday, 11 April 2008 20:55:15 UTC