- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 12:11:57 -0400
- To: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Cc: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>, "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>, Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>
Laura Carlson writes: > When the W3C validator throws an error for a missing alt the students > and developers that I work with, finally get it through their heads > that text alternatives are mandatory not just for WCAG but as well for > valid HTML. It makes a BIG impression. > As I understood things, this would not be available to us in the HTML 5 conformance checker. There would be no way to know what triggered the error. Something did, but specifically triggered it is not identified. To continue this behavior in HTML 5 conformance checking, and to get the additional direct pointers to WCAG, we had to agree to warning rather than error. Janina
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