- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:56:44 +0100
- To: James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- CC: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>
James Graham wrote: > For millions of people with flickr accounts I suspect imposing a > requirement to provide alt text for each image would quickly drive them > to a different service that did not impose such a requirement. Since when did flickr users work with the HTML markup, directly? The metadata is already entered, by virtue of giving uploaded images a title, description, tags, etc. It's the onus of the flickr backen service (and the developers working on that) to work out which of those, or which combination, would be the most relevant ALT attribute. P -- Patrick H. Lauke ______________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com ______________________________________________________________ Co-lead, Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________ Take it to the streets ... join the WaSP Street Team http://streetteam.webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________
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