- From: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 10:27:15 -0400
- To: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
- Cc: Smylers@stripey.com, hsivonen@iki.fi
> When the situation is that the user didn't cooperate, > placing the blame doesn't really help the readers of > the generated pages. Yes, it actually does. The main motivation for dropping the alt requirement is that toolmakers want to produce valid output, and therefore have an incentive to cheat. The cheating messes up other pages, and therefore makes all the information unreliable. (My personal opinion is that it is already too late to salvage alt="" for decorations and missing alt, because of all the existing use.) If the validity check itself clearly places blame on the author instead of on the tool, then this incentive is removed, or at least greatly reduced. -jJ
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