- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 11:50:25 +0200
- To: wai-xtech@w3.org
At 10:24 13/05/2008, Henri Sivonen wrote: >On May 13, 2008, at 02:49, William Loughborough wrote: > >>Accessibility to the Web is the cornerstone of the World Wide Web, >>not some bolted-on >>characteristic. > > >Actually, some accessibility features are built in and others are >bolted on. > >(...) > >Alt is one of the bolted on things. It's not politically correct, but >as a WG we can't make good decisions if we pretend otherwise. "Alt is one of the bolted on things." This one goes straight to the hall of shame. (The alt attribute is not perfect - being an attribute, it doesn't allow markup inside it - but it is not "bolted on".) 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
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