- From: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 19:38:34 +0200
- To: Robert J Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- Cc: Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com>, HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
Robert J Burns wrote:
> What this means is that we are still looking for a use case for why any
> authoring tool (or author for that matter) would need to omit the alt
> attribute.
Being an authoring tool developer myself, I also wonder how I will
present the UI for the alt attribute since I do not want to require
HTML knowledge from users. I clearly don't see an HTML editing
tool aimed at beginners w/o technical knowledge asking
What is your image intended to represent ?
( ) a phrase or paragraph with an alternative graphical
representation
( ) an icon
( ) a graphical representation of some of the surrounding text
( ) a purely decorative image that doesn't add any information but is
still specific to the surrounding content
( ) a key part of the content
So an authoring tool like Nvu has really two options only:
1. leave the alt attribute entirely optional
2. keep it mandatory
I'll stick to the latter.
</Daniel>
Received on Saturday, 3 May 2008 17:39:22 UTC