FYI ted o'connor sent an email yesterday [1] to the whatwg list, which a few hours later [2] resulted in a normative change to the html living standard : it is no longer REQUIRED [3] that conformance checkers suppress alt errors when meta name=generator is present, now they MAY. This may have some bearing on HTML5 ISSUE-206: meta-generator [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2012Jul/0134.html [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2012Jul/0135.html [2] http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7201&to=7202 -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG www.paciellogroup.com | www.HTML5accessibility.com | www.twitter.com/stevefaulkner HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives - dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/ Web Accessibility Toolbar - www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
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