- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 12:21:52 +0200
- To: W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
At 15:01 2/05/2008, Smylers wrote: >(...) >However, for all sites which are currently valid HTML 4 -- that is, they >provide genuine alt text -- the requirements are exactly the same in >HTML 5; that alt text is still mandatory. There is no option for the >author to omit it. There is a loophole in the requirements. The spec says: "When it is possible for alternative text to be provided, (...), text that conveys can serve as a substitute for the image must be given as the contents of the alt attribute." "When it is possible" is too subjective and I doubt that it meets W3C QA guidelines, as I explained at <http://juicystudio.com/article/html5-alt-text-authoring-tools.php#comment29>. Best regards, Christophe --- Please don't invite me to LinkedIn, Facebook, Quechup or other "social networks". You may have agreed to their "privacy policy", but I haven't. -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442 B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
Received on Thursday, 8 May 2008 10:22:42 UTC