Re: ***DHSPAM*** Re: Request for clarification of the case where 'the image isn't discussed by the surrounding text, but it has some relevance'

Ian Hickson wrote:

> The meaning of the page is unchanged whether the image is present or 
> absent. That's basically the _definition_ of purely decorative.
> 
> What possible benefit could a blind user get from knowing that there is a 
> picture present that he can't see? We're not trying to taunt people here. 
> The page is a poem, that's the sole purpose of the page, to convey that 
> poem.

No, Ian, the page is /not/ a poem : it is a poem
plus a picture.  Surely you can see that.

Philip TAYLOR

Received on Monday, 25 August 2008 13:03:34 UTC