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Re: alt crazyness (Re: alt and authoring practices)

From: Olivier GENDRIN <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 12:38:42 +0200
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To: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Daniel Glazman
<daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com> wrote:
>  Smylers wrote:
> > > 3. when I read something like "When the alt attribute is missing, the
> > >   image represents a key part of the content. Non-visual user agents
> > >   should apply image analysis heuristics to help the user make sense
> > >   of the image.", I can't believe my eyes...
> >
> > Why?  That sounds entirely plausible to me.
> >
>
>  Plausible and not implementable.

We are lucky to have many UA developers on the list, what do they
think about that ? Would they implement a such behaviour ?

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Olivier G.
http://www.lespacedunmatin.info/blog/
Received on Tuesday, 6 May 2008 10:39:22 UTC

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