- From: T.V Raman <raman@google.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:08:16 -0700
- To: fielding@gbiv.com
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
1+ --- Roy T. Fielding writes: > 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 -- Best Regards, --raman Title: Research Scientist Email: raman@google.com WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ Google: tv+raman GTalk: raman@google.com PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc
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