- From: Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 15:27:52 +0100
- To: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- 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>
There are really only two options, if the user refuses to provide ALT text : 1) Emit nothing. 2) Emit invalid HTML Since users will abandon, in droves, tools that implement option (1), only tools that implement option (2) will survive natural selection. Philip TAYLOR -------- Daniel Glazman wrote: > 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 !
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