- From: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 11:51:25 +0200
- To: HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>
- CC: Robert J Burns <rob@robburns.com>
Robert J Burns 2008-05-12 11.47: > On May 11, 2008, at 11:12 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > On May 8, 2008, at 8:28 AM, Steven Faulkner wrote: >> Dear HTML WG members, >> >> The first draft of our rewrite of major sections of 3.12.2 "The img >> element" in the HTML5 draft is now available: >> >> http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/misc/uc/ > > Thanks for writing up a proposal. This proposal does not cover the use > case where HTML generated by a tool does not have a textual > alternative available. Examples include: > > - Dragging a photo into a WYSIWYG mail program's composer (Mail > programs do not normally prompt for a description and doing so would > be confusing to users) > - Bulk upload of photographs to a photo sharing site, where the > photographer is unwilling to put in the effort to individually > describe each one > - A script that scrapes images from other sources that lack text > alternatives, and generate html > > Keep in mind that the use cases you list here are due to trying to > make the alt attribute more than it currently is in HTML4 and > according to best practices. Excellent point! -- leif halvard silli
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