Re: Request to publish HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives as a first public working draft

have added bug
add rationale for providing an alt when inline description is available
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9678

On 7 May 2010 02:14, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 07 May 2010 07:06:02 +0900, Steven Faulkner
> <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I'm the editor for the following document
>> HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives
>> http://dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/
>> and am requesting that the HTML WG publish it as a FPWD, preferably
>> along with the next round of heartbeat publications targeted for
>> next month
>
> Admittedly I only skimmed through the document for a few minutes, so maybe I
> missed the answer, but it seems that in Example 2.3 it is not explained what
> the advantage of including an alternative text in the first place is. If
> there is a full description it seems one could just use alt="".
>
>
> --
> Anne van Kesteren
> http://annevankesteren.nl/
>



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