- From: Ian Hickson via cvs-syncmail <cvsmail@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:55:37 +0000
- To: public-html-commits@w3.org
Update of /sources/public/html5/spec In directory hutz:/tmp/cvs-serv7802 Modified Files: Overview.html Log Message: Discourage also auto-generating alt text from other sources that the browsers also have access to. (whatwg r4558) Index: Overview.html =================================================================== RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v retrieving revision 1.3637 retrieving revision 1.3638 diff -u -d -r1.3637 -r1.3638 --- Overview.html 10 Jan 2010 11:46:27 -0000 1.3637 +++ Overview.html 10 Jan 2010 13:55:34 -0000 1.3638 @@ -16618,7 +16618,16 @@ content.</p> <p>Markup generators should generally avoid using the image's own - file name as the alternative text.</p> + file name as the alternative text. Similarly, markup generators + should avoid generating alternative text from any content that will + be equally available to presentation user agents (e.g. Web + browsers).</p> + + <p class="note">This is because once a page is generated, it will + typically not be updated, whereas the browsers that later read the + page can be updated by the user, therefore the browser is likely to + have more up-to-date and finely-tuned heuristics than the markup + generator did when generating the page.</p> </div><div class="impl">
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