- From: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 10:08:32 +0100
- To: "Michael[tm] Smith" <mike@w3.org>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, "Edward O'Connor" <eoconnor@apple.com>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
hi mike, >Anyway, if we can just agree for now that it would be better to have a >more-expressive-and-less-easy-to-understand name, let's do that. yes regards steve On 2 August 2012 10:05, Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org> wrote: > Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, 2012-08-02 08:39 +0100: > >> Hi all, >> I will support this concept/proposal, but think it needs some tweaking >> >> I think the use of an attribute with a more expressive and less easy >> to misunderstand name is useful. aka something along the lines of that >> proposed by hixie. >> So suggest that the attribute name be changed. > > Yeah, I agree as well that we need a more expressive and less easy to > misunderstand name -- for a number of reasons, including the core reasons > that Hixie specifically enumerated: > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2012Aug/0004.html > > - it's long, so people aren't going to want to type it out > - it's long, so it will stick out in copy-and-paste scenarios > - it's eminently searchable (long unique term) and so will likely lead to > good documentation if it's adopted > >> a suggestion "important-image-content-published-with-no-text-alternative" > > I could live with that. I could also live with what Hixie proposed, > "generator-unable-to-provide-required-alt". But note that Hixie also > articulated some reasons for the specific parts of that name: > > - the "generator" part implies that it's for use by generators, and may > discourage authors from using it > - the "unable" and "required" parts make it obvious that using this > attribute is an act of last resort > > So think "generator-unable-to-provide-required-alt" is a bit more > expressive in some specific ways that are valuable. > > Anyway, if we can just agree for now that it would be better to have a > more-expressive-and-less-easy-to-understand name, let's do that. > > --Mike > > -- > Michael[tm] Smith http://people.w3.org/mike -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG www.paciellogroup.com | www.HTML5accessibility.com | www.twitter.com/stevefaulkner HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives - dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/ Web Accessibility Toolbar - www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
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