[Bug 22187] Replace the “description” with “independent description”

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22187

--- Comment #4 from Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru> ---
I propose to reject this change.

1. The Use Cases and Requirements notes the same contrast Vlad does, in terms I
believe are similar. The rest of the document relies on HTML accurately
describing what an alt does, which I think is a proper separation of concerns.
2. It is not clear in what sense the description is independent of the image it
describes, so I do not believe that it improves clarity.

I seriously don't think there is much value in messing with the title, and if
there was it would be to change it to use the words "longdesc attribute"

The attached version of the document doesn't help convince me. And less so
because Search and replace without more careful checking was not a good enough
tool to convey your meaning.
(By the way if you are going to do that, please *at least* make it clear in the
edited version what it represents - leaving stuff for search engines to find
and thus for people to read with essentially no context should be done
carefully. I believe that's one of the reasons the copyright license of the
document does not permit it).

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Received on Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:04:30 UTC