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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9214 --- Comment #5 from Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> 2010-03-24 00:22:31 --- (In reply to comment #4) > Assuming the request is: > > "An <img> element with role="presentation" should be allowed to not have alt > specified." > > ...then the request doesn't make sense to me. If we know the image is > presentational, surely we equally know that the empty string is appropriate alt > text, and it would be inappropriate therefore to annotate the image as missing > required alternative text. > > Why would we want to allow authors to avoid giving alternative text for images > that they know are presentational? Could you give an example of where > role=presentation would be appropriate but alt="" would not be? I think the premise of the bug is not that alt="" would be inappropriate, but rather that it would be redundant. Empty alt and role="presentation" will have essentially the same effect in non-visual media, at least in modern UAs. Or to put it another way, it does not seem like there is harm in allowing role="presentation" to appear without alt, at least none that is obvious to me. (I don't personally feel strongly about this issue, I am just trying to do my best to clarify the intent.) -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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