- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:23:49 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- Cc: david.dailey@sru.edu, John Foliot <foliot@wats.ca>, HTML4All <list@html4all.org>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, wai-xtech@w3.org, Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@ieee.org>
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Jim Jewett wrote: > On 4/17/08, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Jim Jewett wrote: > > >>> ... sometimes there simply is no alternative text available. > > >>> [examples] > > >> [proposed (imperfect) alt text that actually was available] > > > That would be a fine caption -- but as it should be visible to > > everyone, > > How about making the alt optional if -- and only if -- the img has an > aria-describedby attribute? Wouldn't that require that the image be described somewhere? The whole point here is that we don't know what the image is. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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