- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:44:31 +0200
- To: "Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>, "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>
- Cc: "Lachlan Hunt" <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, public-html@w3.org
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:08:53 +0200, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > ALT should not be required either. It leads to pointless alt="" on > images that have no reasonable text equivalent, just to satisfy > conformance checkers. And that is actively harmful, because AT can't > tell the difference between a semantically null image and a semantically > meaningful image with no text alternative. So if it were not required, you would have alt="" on things that need no text, alt="useful information" on things that are useful information, and nothing on poorly authored content which may or may not need an alt attribute? The approach we took in ATAG 1 was to require noting that the absence of alt is an error, but also require that no default be generated, which is in line with this thinking... cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk chaals@opera.com Catch up: Speed Dial http://opera.com
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