- From: Charles McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru>
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:28:25 +0300
- To: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>, "Travis Leithead" <travis.leithead@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "Silvia Pfeiffer (silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com)" <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 03:14:48 +0300, Travis Leithead
<travis.leithead@microsoft.com> wrote:
> We are once again current with Ian's changes through SVN#7859 (April 27,
> 2013).
Minor editorial suggestion...
> * Make it clearer that the optional icon doesn't make sense in plain
> text (7855)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/f59d435c51e19146eb68f0ecf68dc07568752493
Instead of Ian's change, I think it makes more sense to suggest "an
indication (such as an icon, in a visual user agent) that..."
Screenreaders have been presenting indiciators that there are images for
about two decades, even though they don't use an icon and the visual
content is not rendered...
cheers
Chaals
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