Re: alt and authoring practices

Henri Sivonen wrote:

> 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)?

Because you think average editing tool users are going to understand
that ??? Bwahaha, to say the least. No, that's not a workable solution
for very average users.

Think simple, think MacWrite, a piece of software anyone could
understand in 5 minutes w/o having to read any manual.

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