hixie: Try to tweak the alt='' text repair requirements to be acceptable to more HTMLWG members. (now with actual proof reading\!) (whatwg r4650)

hixie: Try to tweak the alt='' text repair requirements to be acceptable
to more HTMLWG members. (now with actual proof reading\!) (whatwg r4650)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.3703&r2=1.3704&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4649&to=4650

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
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--- Overview.html 5 Feb 2010 02:03:51 -0000 1.3703
+++ Overview.html 5 Feb 2010 02:11:10 -0000 1.3704
@@ -15826,18 +15826,18 @@
 
   <p>User agents may always provide the user with the option to
   display any image, or to prevent any image from being
-  displayed. User agents may also apply other heuristics to help the
-  user make sense of the image when the user is unable to make direct
-  use of the image, e.g. due to a visual disability or because they
-  are using a text terminal with no graphics capabilities. Such
-  heuristics could include, for instance, optical character
-  recognition (OCR) of text found within the image.</p>
+  displayed. User agents may also apply heuristics to help the user
+  make use of the image when the user is unable to see it, e.g. due to
+  a visual disability or because they are using a text terminal with
+  no graphics capabilities. Such heuristics could include, for
+  instance, optical character recognition (OCR) of text found within
+  the image.</p>
 
   <p class="warning">While user agents are encouraged to repair cases
   of missing <code title="attr-img-alt"><a href="#attr-img-alt">alt</a></code> attributes, authors
   must not rely on such behaviour. <a href="#alt">Requirements for
-  providing text to act as an alternative for images are
-  described in detail below.</a></p>
+  providing text to act as an alternative for images</a> are described
+  in detail below.</p>
 
   <p>The <em>contents</em> of <code><a href="#the-img-element">img</a></code> elements, if any, are
   ignored for the purposes of rendering.</p>

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