Re: The alt="" attribute

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) wrote:
> > 
> > If you honestly think that there is any way that image upload sites 
> > will ever have suitable replacement text for the majority of their 
> > images, then I don't know what to tell you. It just won't happen.
> 
> Evidence evidence evidence.  Enough of opinions and hypotheses, please.

If you honestly don't think there is any evidence of that, then instead 
consider the other cases that I mentioned as being affected by the same 
problem (e.g. Webcams, fractal explorers, Google Street View) where the 
image data is collected in an automated fashion, and therefore there is
not a user to ask for the replacement text from.

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Received on Tuesday, 26 August 2008 22:20:55 UTC