Re: Flickr and alt

David Poehlman wrote:

> I don't think a spec should require accessibility but neither should it 
> stiffle it's possibility.

So, as long as @alt is available, the possibility is there. Mandating 
@alt would not necessarily and automatically result in increased 
accessibility - in the same way that, even today, sites that perfectly 
validate to XHTML 1.0 or whatever are not necessarily accessible, or the 
same way that Word documents that perfectly pass spellchecking don't 
necessarily make any sense.

P
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Received on Monday, 18 August 2008 23:04:26 UTC