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Re: HTML Action Item 54 - ...draft text for HTML 5 spec to require producers/authors to include @alt on img elements.

From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 16:45:34 +0100
Message-ID: <4828661E.1070804@cfit.ie>
To: James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, wai-liaison@w3.org, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>

James Graham wrote:
> Do typical ATs not support the title attribute for these cases? Maybe it 
> would be more effective to get those products fixed rather than trying 
> to overload alt to address this set of problems as well.

Yes support is patchy and could be improved, so that is a good point. It 
is usually an either or scenario if both the @alt and @title are 
present. Not ideal for users who have not clue about these things to go 
rooting around in their user preferences (which is the case).

Josh
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