- From: Philip TAYLOR <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:05:54 +0100
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- CC: HTML4All <list@html4all.org>, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, wai-xtech@w3.org, Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@ieee.org>, "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Julian Reschke wrote: >> By "no value at all", do you mean (a) "no ALT attribute" > > Yes. > >> (in which case the answer is that my proposal is >> syntactically valid, assuming a mandate for ALT > > Well, if we insist on requiring the attribute, than not having the > attribute is invalid. Invalid is bad. This is why we are having this > discussion, aren't we? Fine, so we agree, do we not ? My proposal leads to valid HTML, and the AT user will learn from the ALT text supplied that no more meaningful ALT text was available at the time that the page was generated. Not sure where we differ ... ** Phil.
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