- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 16:29:31 +0300
- To: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk> wrote: > This could be a different <meta> element... > > <meta name="alternative_text" content="nowarn"> This could work. (Work for alt, that is. I don't expect it to be reasonable to come up with names for all possible aspects of validator behavior, but I don't expect it to be interesting to suppress arbitrary validator behaviors.) > Or even better, a boolean option built into the validator's UI. That would not address the problem. Let's recap what problem the spec is trying to address: The spec is trying to remove the incentive for generator developers to emit empty alt when their generator doesn't have or logically cannot have proper alternative text it could stick into alt. If suppressing reporting of missing alt was under the control of the person who invokes the validator instead of the person who programs the markup generator, the person who programs the markup generator would still be incented to make the generator emit empty alt in order to make the generator always produce valid output so that the generator appears to be correct in the eyes of people who judge it by validating its output. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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