- From: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 16:19:03 +0200
- To: "Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Cc: Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>, Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>, HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) wrote: > which seems to me to hit the nail on the head. ALT is mandatory, > but if a user refuses to provide ALT text, then the editing tool > is correct to emit INVALID HTML (and, presumably, to warn the user > that this regrettable behaviour has been necessary). So conformance criteria for a tool include the possibility of non- conformance for output instances. I think the test suite for an authoring tool is going to be a bit of a syllogism. tool A is conformant because it outputs conformant instances but since it should also be able to output non-conformant instances, conformance is nill. So it's conformant and non-conformant at the same time. And I hope nobody has certification in mind ! </Daniel>
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