Re: Request for clarification of 'In many cases, the image is actually just supplementary'

anytime you require the empty string, it is ambiguous.  If it can be seen 
visually, it must be reflected textually.  The image is there for a reason 
and that needs to be addressed.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
To: "Steven Faulkner" <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
Cc: "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>; <public-html@w3.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 5:34 AM
Subject: Re: Request for clarification of 'In many cases, the image is 
actually just supplementary'



On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Steven Faulkner wrote:
>
> The HTML5 spec currently states [1]:
>
> "In many cases, the image is actually just supplementary, and its
> presence merely reinforces the surrounding text. In these cases, the
> alt attribute must be present but its value must be the empty string."
>
> and provides and example:
>
> A flowchart that repeats the previous paragraph in graphical form:
>
> <p>The network passes data to the Tokeniser stage, which
> passes data to the Tree Construction stage. From there, data goes
> to both the DOM and to Script Execution. Script Execution is
> linked to the DOM, and, using document.write(), passes data to
> the Tokeniser.</p>
> <p><img src="images/parsing-model-overview.png" alt=""></p>"
>
>
> So would the example below be non-conforming?
>
>
> <p>The network passes data to the Tokeniser stage, which
> passes data to the Tree Construction stage. From there, data goes
> to both the DOM and to Script Execution. Script Execution is
> linked to the DOM, and, using document.write(), passes data to
> the Tokeniser.</p>
> <p><img src="images/parsing-model-overview.png" alt="Flowchart
> representation of the preceding paragraph."></p>

I have attempted to make the spec clear about this. Please let me know if
it is still ambiguous. Thanks!

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