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Re: alt and authoring practices

From: Olivier GENDRIN <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 00:01:26 +0200
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(Sorry, i'm late in reading my mailing lists)

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org> wrote:
> Conflicts between the language of the page, and language of the alt
> attributes.
> A French with attributes alt in English. Aka likely to be
> automatically generated by a poor localized tool.

In that particular case, and considering that alt is a replacement, i
think that the @lang of the img tag should be applied to the alt if
displayed/read.

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Olivier G.
http://www.lespacedunmatin.info/blog/
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