- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:00:50 -0500
- To: Sean Hayes <Sean.Hayes@microsoft.com>
- Cc: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
> Sounds OK to me. Thanks Sean. Best Regards, Laura On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Sean Hayes <Sean.Hayes@microsoft.com> wrote: > Sounds OK to me. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Laura Carlson [mailto:laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 7:46 PM > To: Sean Hayes > Cc: Janina Sajka; Matt Morgan-May; Dave Singer; Gez Lemon; HTML Accessibility Task Force; Gregory J. Rosmaita > Subject: Re: CFC re ISSUE-31 Missing Alt > > 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 > > -- Laura L. Carlson
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