- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:24:59 +0200
- To: Jeff Schiller <codedread@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Jeff Schiller wrote: > What is alternative text - is it meant to be a completely neutral > description of the image or is it a description of the image in the context > of which it was embedded? The most suitable alternative text is dependent upon the context and purpose of the image. There's an example in the spec that illustrates this. See the final set of examples in the spec, beginning with the sentence "A single image can have different appropriate alternative text depending on the context." -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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