- From: John Foliot <foliot@wats.ca>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:14:08 -0700
- To: "'Ian Hickson'" <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: "'Dave Singer'" <singer@apple.com>, "'HTML4All'" <list@html4all.org>, <wai-xtech@w3.org>, "'HTML WG'" <public-html@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > > You might be able to get some people to describe some of the most > popular photos, but there's no way that's going to scale to all > photos on all photo galleries, so the problem of what to do with > photos that have no useful alternative text will always exist. Alt="" Alt="_notsupplied" (default) Alt="[user]'s photo #__ of __" (auto-generated) While the first 2 of the 3 above are weak to useless, the third does provide some useful context for non-visual users (and could be programmatically achieved with little effort). In all 3 instances, maintaining the alt attribute for conformance causes no less "problems" than experienced today, while at the same time not endorsing *NOT* providing some alternative text. Remember, Anne wrote, "...the single constrain I have: not finding it necessary to provide replacement text for all those images." Not that he could not, but that he decided not to - it wasn't necessary. Endorsing and allowing that mind-set is just plain wrong IMHO. JF
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