- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:05:34 -0500
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Cc: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Hi Dave, > 'a missing tag' is ambiguous (and 'a missing tag must be generated' could be > seen as a contradiction...) > > a tag stating that 'alt' is known to be missing, perhaps? > > 'which can then be...' appears to be connected to the authoring tool, rather > than this new tag > > overall: > if an authoring tool prompts an author for alt text and the author > explicitly refuses to supply it, then a tag stating that 'alt' is missing > MUST be auto-generated by the > authoring tool; the presence of this tag can then be used to trigger a > retrieval process > such as that outlined in the emails on RDFPic [1] and the RDF and > Photos W3C Note [2] This is an excellent observation, Dave. WAI CG suggested the name "missing". But a more accurate name would be "incomplete". I've changed the name of the attribute to "incomplete" in the document. > I'm not at all sure I agree with this approach, but we may as well be clear > about what we are debating! What is it about this approach that makes you unsure? Best Regards, Laura -- Laura L. Carlson
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