Re: feedback requested on WAI CG Consensus Resolutions on Text alternatives in HTML 5 document

> As a matter of language design, I think the absence of the alt
> attribute is a sufficient syntactic signal of its absence. I think
> adding more syntax for affirming its absence (e.g. noalt, missing,
> etc.) is unhelpful.

It would be unhelpful if we were to ask humans to type such syntax.

It might be helpful if we *allowed* authoring tools to add it as a
way of saying "Not my fault!", so that they would be less tempted
to lie in more harmful ways.

-jJ

Received on Tuesday, 18 August 2009 07:13:41 UTC