- From: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:04:04 +0100
- To: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>, wai-xtech@w3.org
Profuse apologies for not making myself clear. I thought that the apparent synonymous nature of the terms "text alternative" and "alternative text" was apparent. The term "alternative text" is used in the spec, so (can HTML the working group) take the proposal as referring to the term "text alternative" being adopted as the definition of "alternative text". see ya! On 15/04/2008, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Steven Faulkner wrote: > > > > Currently the HTML5 specification does not define what a "text > > alternative" for a non text objects is. > > > That's because the term "text alternative" never appears in the HTML5 > spec. The spec does go to extreme lengths to describe what value the "alt" > attribute must have, however, as well as defining what the attribute is > for. It's not clear to me what exactly you want defined. > > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' > -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG Europe Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org Web Accessibility Toolbar - http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
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