- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 04:38:05 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Debi Orton <oradnio@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Tue, 20 May 2008, Debi Orton wrote: > > I realize that I am late in responding to this thread. Thanks to Steve, > Laura, et. al. for putting this together. > > However, I would like to add my voice to those of the workgroup who have > advocated for requiring an alt attribute for the img element. I work > with several AT users who rely heavily on the alt attribute to find out > what information they may be missing when a page includes images, and > I've seen their frustration when no such information is provided. > > Considering what it provides for those users who need it, it's a small > imposition on developers. Note that the HTML5 spec as written today _does_ require the alt="" attribute when it is at all possible to include it. The question is whether we should require the attribute also in the cases where the person or software generating the markup has no idea what the image is. Your users would be just as frustrated, I assume, with an alt="" attribute that provides useless information (such as "unknown image") as if the alt="" attribute was omitted altogether, right? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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