- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:54:01 -0700
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Jun 16, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > 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. Under the current HTML5 draft, @alt="" does already imply @role="presentation", so it would be redundant to use both. However, it is not disallowed to use both (as far as I can tell). Regards, Maciej
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