- From: Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl>
- Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 00:49:00 +0200
- To: <public-html@w3.org>
At 16:09 -0600 UTC, on 2007-07-06, scott lewis wrote: > On 6 Jul 2007, at 1529, Sander Tekelenburg wrote: [... which came first, the image or the text] >> "The img element represents a piece of text with an >> alternate graphical representation." Source: >> <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/ >> section-embedded.html#alt> > > And the next sentence in the spec states: [...] Yep :) > Though, I agree, the sentence you quoted is somewhat misleading when > taken out of context. Perhaps it needs to be rephrased. Maybe. But it's a sentence that is very relevant to the accessibility debate, so I hope it won't be silently rephrased. The very fact that it is phrased the way it is suggests there is a very conscious thought behind it. IIRC someone asked about that sentence's origin/rationale on the WHATWG mailing list, but I don't remember if there ever was a response, or what it was. -- Sander Tekelenburg The Web Repair Initiative: <http://webrepair.org/>
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