- From: Sean Hayes <Sean.Hayes@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:56:16 +0000
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- CC: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Yes I've been thinking it would be better to call it @altNotAsserted. Missing is a little ambiguous as to what is actually missing. -----Original Message----- From: public-html-a11y-request@w3.org [mailto:public-html-a11y-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of David Singer Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 3:00 AM To: Laura Carlson Cc: Gregory J. Rosmaita; HTML Accessibility Task Force Subject: Re: CFC re ISSUE-31 Missing Alt '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] I'm not at all sure I agree with this approach, but we may as well be clear about what we are debating! On Apr 28, 2010, at 16:51 , Laura Carlson wrote: > Hi Gregory, > >> my 2 cents (american) on an auto-generated authoring-tool inserted >> missing alt tag: >> >> if an authoring tool prompts an author for alt text and the author >> explicitly refuses, then a missing tag MUST be auto-generated by the >> authoring tool, which can then be used to trigger a retrieval process >> such as that i outlined in my post on RDFPic [1] and the RDF and >> Photos W3C Note [2] > > Thank you very much for this. I added a section on the Change Proposal > for metadata using your text as a start. > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/User:Lcarlson/ImgElement#Metadata > > Thoughts everyone? Ideas for improvement? Can anyone not live with this? > > Best Regards, > Laura > > -- > Laura L. Carlson > David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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