- From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:26:08 +0100
- To: Rimantas Liubertas <rimantas@gmail.com>
- CC: HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org, advocate group <list@html4all.org>
Rimantas Liubertas wrote: >>>> > There ARE cases when alt attribute would do more harm and hurt accessibilty >>>> > more than lack of it, and spec would allow you to omit it in that case. > That's the very point: null ALT text is apropriate sometimes, and it makes sense > to have it allowed in the specification. As you say: it is not the > presence or lack > of the alt attribute, it's the proper usage (or not usage). So would you therefore agree that it is not "[the] alt attribute [that] would do more harm and hurt accessibilty more than lack of it" but rather "[the incorrect use of the] alt attribute [that] ..." ? If you would, then this is no reason for not requiring use of the attribute, but what is therefore required in addition is a campaign to make authors aware of the correct use thereof. Philip TAYLOR
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