- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:46:26 -0500
- To: Sean Hayes <Sean.Hayes@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>, Matt Morgan-May <mattmay@adobe.com>, Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>, Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>
Hi Sean, > I tried to add this to the "Outcomes of Creating a Missing Attribute" section: I tweaked this a bit more [1]. It now reads: <draft text> Outcomes of Creating a Missing Attribute A missing attribute provides a practical method of detection, handling, and repair of missing text alternatives, after a conscious decision has been made by the author to deliberately publish images without text alternatives. It would: * Allow an image without alt text be honestly labeled for it is: missing, incomplete, lacking substance. * Affirm that the author did not (and does not intend to) provide a text alternative. * Provide a machine checkable mechanism to locate missing alt text/enable tools to quickly discern where "missing" has been used. * Afford a practical means to mitigate damages after all else has failed, allowing for crowdsourcing or metadata repair. AT would be at liberty apply a crowdsourced definition, to scour image metadata or or both, since the AT knows that the author didn't apply a text alternative, it can inform the user as to the potential deficiency in the located text(s). * Support ethical accountability by developing and promoting responsible tools and by advocating an effective enabling environment. </draft text> Can anyone not live with that? Ideas for improvement? All input appreciated. Thanks. Best Regards, Laura [1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/User:Lcarlson/ImgElement -- Laura L. Carlson
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