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- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:47:17 +0000
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15586 Summary: Could you please add the following "guideline" to the description of how to properly use alternative text as a way to naturally represent the page both with and without images. I think that it would clarify what you are trying to say in several of the exa Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Platform: Other URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top OS/Version: other Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org, public-html@w3.org Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: Could you please add the following "guideline" to the description of how to properly use alternative text as a way to naturally represent the page both with and without images. I think that it would clarify what you are trying to say in several of the examples. It would definitively correct the practice of many webmasters who programmatically repeat a paragraph of information verbatim both inside and outside of the alt attribute--which is a practice that would make no sense if the information were being read over the phone, and is extremely irritating, both for someone listening and for someone reading (or hand-copying the HTML). It would make people think harder to include REAL alternative text instead of a worthless repetition of words. "In general, information outside of an image, or in other descriptive attributes of the image, should NOT be repeated within the image's alternative text." --or even better-- "In general, information already contained outside of the image(s) of the web page, or in other descriptive image attributes, should NOT be repeated within the alt attribute(s) of the image(s)." This would make best sense perhaps, if added at the location after the sentence, 'So, in general, alternative text can be written by considering what one would have written had one not been able to include the image.' Of course, one need not repeat the words "in general" in both sentences, since that would make the astute observer snicker at the resulting hypocrisy. Posted from: 72.214.163.89 User agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; en) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.60 -- Configure bugmail: https://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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