Re: Baby Steps or Backwards Steps?

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

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Received on Wednesday, 15 August 2007 22:56:50 UTC