- From: Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 19:07:39 +0100
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- CC: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Mark Baker wrote: > I just added this to the Wiki page on "alt"[1]; > > The primary purpose of a markup language specification like HTML is > that it be able to be used to construct a document with a specific > meaning as determined by a publisher, and to permit a consumer to > reconstruct that meaning when in receipt of the document. Whether a > given document uses alt text or not matters not to that purpose. Can you please explain that last observation ? If, as an unsighted user (for example), I am unable to reconstruct the meaning of a given document because a part of that meaning lies in images that are inaccessible to me, and if -- had the producer added appropriate ALT text -- I would have been able to reconstruct the meaning of the document, then surely it matters a great deal that such a document cannot be reconstructed solely because the producer thereof failed to include appropriate ALT text, does it not ? Philip TAYLOR
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