- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 09:36:25 +0300
- To: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Cc: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
On May 3, 2008, at 20:38 , Daniel Glazman wrote: > 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. How can your users write good alt text without having knowledge about its purpose? > 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. How about a checkbox labeled "Purely Decorative" and a text field labeled "Textual Alternative" (if the checkbox is checked, disable text field and emit alt=""; if the checkbox is unchecked and text field empty, emit no alt attribute)? -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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