- From: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:52:40 +0100
- To: HTML4All <list@html4all.org>
- Cc: wai-xtech@w3.org, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, public-html@w3.org
Hi Lachlan, > HTML5 conformance criteria should not be considered to be a social > engineering tool. The lack of requirement for alt in a few cases does > not prevent alt text inspection tools being integrated into > accessibility checkers or validators. Social engineering on this issue > can and should continue through other avenues, such as accessibility > guidelines, advocacy and education; but not in the HTML5 specification. The current spec in most cases related to the alt does _require_ an alt with a useful value as a conformance criteria. So it is being used as a "Social engineering" tool. regards stevef On 16/04/2008, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au> wrote: > John Foliot wrote: > > However, if the next generation authoring language *DID NOT ALLOW > > THIS*, then Flickr and kin would wake up and smell the coffee, and > > allow the contributors the ability to do the right thing. > > Keep in mind that the *current* generation authoring language does not > allow alt to be omitted. A simple requirement for alt in HTML5, just > like in HTML4, won't have any effect on sites like flickr. But there is > sure to be other, more effective approaches that might. > > > It is for this *VERY* reason that the next-gen language needs to be more > > pro-active in the social engineering regard, to force (through the risk of > > non-conformance) authoring tools to provide the ability for content authors > > to do the right thing - something I cannot do at Flickr even if I wanted to. > > HTML5 conformance criteria should not be considered to be a social > engineering tool. The lack of requirement for alt in a few cases does > not prevent alt text inspection tools being integrated into > accessibility checkers or validators. Social engineering on this issue > can and should continue through other avenues, such as accessibility > guidelines, advocacy and education; but not in the HTML5 specification. > > -- > Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software > http://lachy.id.au/ > http://www.opera.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > List_HTML4all.org mailing list > http://www.html4all.org/wiki > -- 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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