- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:09:29 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>
- Cc: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, public html for all <list@html4all.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Al Gilman wrote: > > In terms of meeting the HTML5 performance goals of minimizing > disruption, disruption to the accessibility checking community has to be > included as relevant. Here, leaving @alt as a required attribute and > @alt="" as the code for "suitable to ignore" has performance benefits in > terms of not disrupting incumbent practice. But this has to be weighed > against the potential benefits of change, and the steps taken to > mitigate the negative effects of change. The problem is that there are _three_ states, not two: 1. Image is not important. (alt="") 2. Image is important, alternative text is available. (alt="...") 3. Image is important, alternative text is not available. Case 3 is the one we are discussing. Cases 1 and 2 are well understood and nobody is suggesting changing them. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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