[Bug 13651] Missing alt should not be considered conforming in the presence of figcaptions over 50 words in length.

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13651

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |ian@hixie.ch
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #2 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2011-08-06 07:23:56 UTC ---
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: There's nothing wrong with verbose alternative text. Pictures, we
are told, are worth a thousand words; textual alternatives of that length are
not out of the question. There is no usability problem here since an AT can
just provide a way for the user to signal that it should move on to something
more interesting.

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Received on Saturday, 6 August 2011 07:23:58 UTC