- From: Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:52:33 +0200
- To: public-html@w3.org
At 03:06 -0500 UTC, on 2007-07-15, Robert Burns wrote: [... Fluffy] > My contention (and this was a point I think Jon was making too), is > that when a textual equivalent describing the image is already in the > surrounding prose, it shouldn't be repeated for the @alt attribute. > My proposal was something shorter that let's the user know what > meaning the image conveys in a way that matches it with the prose > available to all users. If there indeed is already a textual equivalent in the surrounding prose -if that text conveys the author's message- then the image is purely decorative and alt="" woud be appropriate. -- Sander Tekelenburg The Web Repair Initiative: <http://webrepair.org/>
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