- From: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:28:43 -0800 (PST)
- To: "'Maciej Stachowiak'" <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: "'Matt May'" <mattmay@adobe.com>, "'HTML WG'" <public-html@w3.org>
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > > I haven't seen any follow-up discussion. I'm interested in hearing > what the rest of the Working Group thinks. Does anyone strongly agree > with Matt that the sentence he objects to should be removed? Does > anyone strongly feel that the sentence should be retained? Does anyone > have alternate wording to suggest that might be acceptable to everyone? FWIW, I agree with Matt that even *if* an automated means could be developed that delivered 100% accurate descriptions of an image (I'm skeptical of that), no amount of heuristics can determine the author intent for adding an image to a specific page (as Matt detailed), and so in the end the desire for heuristic analysis as a replacement for author provided alternative text provides a false 'out' for not actually adding alt text. I support the Change Proposal as submitted. JF
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