- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:37:17 -0500
- To: Jan Richards <jan.richards@utoronto.ca>
- CC: public-html@w3.org, wai-xtech@w3.org
Jan Richards wrote: > Yes of course there is a psychological/motivational component to getting > authors who can see to spend extra time describing their images. But > this is familiar territory for any software with human users. Yeah. And most such software doesn't do very well on this ground, to be honest.... > Similarly, describing images for people who can't see them > is an (emerging) social convention for communication. And tools to > efficiently support this new convention are certainly possible. This is a general statement of principle that I think we all agree on. The question is how we get there, and whether requiring alt attributes in all cases is the right way to do it. -Boris
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