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- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:04:19 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6494 Summary: Make the requiredness about alt more obvious Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Platform: Other OS/Version: other Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: Spec bugs AssignedTo: dave.null@w3.org ReportedBy: simonp@opera.com QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: ian@hixie.ch, mike@w3.org, public-html@w3.org HTML5 allows <img> elements to be associated with a "caption" by various means, in which case the alt attribute may be omitted, and AFAICT there's only one case when the alt attribute may be omitted even without a caption, which is: "4.8.2.1.11 An image in an e-mail or document intended for a specific person who is known to be able to view images" ...which is probably not something that you would see on the Web and so a validator could ignore that case, making alt required (when there's no caption), meaning that a validator would flag an error when there's no alt and no caption. >From discussions on w3c-wai-pf it appears that it is not obvious from the spec that this is the case so it would perhaps be useful if the spec was clearer on this point. -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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