- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 11:19:32 +0300
- To: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Cc: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
On May 4, 2008, at 11:01 , Daniel Glazman wrote: > 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. Is expecting very average users to write useful textual alternatives workable, then? When a user of Nvu doesn't provide a textual alternative to Nvu, is the result better or worse for the user experience of the page reader than Nvu omitting alt and letting UAs indicate the presence of an image in a self-consistent UA-specific way? -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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