- From: Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 14:47:54 -0700
- To: Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Gez your page says "When an authoring tool doesn't have anything useful to put in for the alt text, the tool shouldn't put anything in. A good authoring tool will check for missing alt text and offer to assist the user in repairing the content. If an author is adamant they're not going to provide alt text, there is no requirement that says the authoring tool should provide it in place of the author. " Generally if I am designing a tool, I want to make sure I always generate valid output -- that I am not dependent on my user. You seem to be saying here that the tool must conform to the rules by producing non-conformant output. This may be a difficult message to get across. :-) "The alt attribute is mandatory and MUST NOT be omitted. If the user of an authoring tool does not provide alt text, the authoring tool MUST NOT insert the alt attribute." I'm not sure the spec. editors would be entirely happy with this (heck, I am not sure I am or even that you really are). -- David Singer Apple/QuickTime
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