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- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:27:05 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10708 Summary: change normative alt text authoring requirements to informative advice Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Platform: PC OS/Version: Windows NT Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch ReportedBy: faulkner.steve@gmail.com QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org, public-html@w3.org The spec curently contains non-machine testable normative authoring requirements for use of the alt attribute on images. There is no consensus on these requirements or indeed if they should be normative requirements rather than informative guidance. Casting them in terms of requirements provides no advantage to either the author or the end user. The rigidity of the requirements does not take into account varied use cases and what the user groups who benefit from text alternatives may want. A starting point for improving the current spec text would be to replace all normative 'must's with 'should's in the section 4.8.1.1 Requirements for providing text to act as an alternative for images http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/embedded-content-1.html#alt -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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