- From: Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 10:18:05 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
Janina Sajka writes: > Henry: > > Henri Sivonen writes: > > > Do you really not understand this distinction? Do you really think > > this is about making things nicer to validator users? After all > > these permathreads? Even if you disagree about what markup generator > > developers would do or disagree that what they would do would be > > worse for accessibility, I think it's totally counterproductive to > > mischaracterize what this discussion is about. > > Call me dense if you must, but I don't see there's anything here about > a11y. Not all issues that affect end users are necessarily accessibility issues. I'm surprised if this matter doesn't affect those who use speech-based user agents, but even if it doesn't it still affects other end users, such as Lynx users as I explained here: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2012Aug/0022.html > There's no way that identifying what image may have been injected vs > one that was "hand" authored. From the a11y point of view, that's the > classic distinction without a difference. >From a Lynx user's point of view, I want there to be a distinction between images which are purely decorative and those which are a substantive part of a page's content. That distinction matters to me, hence why I care what validators output, so as to nudge developers into doing the right thing. Cheers Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2
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