Re: Change proposal for ISSUE-85

On Jun 16, 2010, at 3:46 PM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
> See the WAI CG Consensus document: [1] "automatic validators can detect 
> the presence/absence of @alt but in general cannot certify the 
> correctness of the text string." With @role="presentation", they can 
> test the correctness better.
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2009/06/Text-Alternatives-in-HTML5

Argh, that is seriously bogus reasoning on the part of WAI CG.
This will only result in authoring systems adding @role="presentation"
by default as well.  What a friggin waste of bits.  No good can come
from that.

@alt="" should imply @role="presentation" -- to suggest using both
is such an incredible waste of everyone's time and money, not
to mention Internet bandwidth.

....Roy

Received on Thursday, 17 June 2010 00:16:45 UTC