- From: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:38:57 +0200
- To: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>, "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>, wai-liaison@w3.org
Received on Friday, 18 April 2008 05:39:33 UTC
The spec[1] currently states: "In some cases, the image is a critical part of the content. .... In a rare subset of these cases, there might be no alternative text available. " Given that it is only in very rare cases (a "rare subset" of "some cases") where it is considered legitimate in the spec to leave out the alt attribute. And these "rare subset" of cases are a clearly defined class of site "a photo upload site". Would it not be better to require/encourage the relatively small number of AT vendors to provide a feature that exposes images with alt="" (in case the photo site CMS has been designed ot add alt="" automatically), that a user can enable when he/she visits these sites?. [1]http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#the-img -- 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
Received on Friday, 18 April 2008 05:39:33 UTC