- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:06:09 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > For a while I've been honing a clearer definition of the alt= attribute, > one that tries to curtail the worst misuses of the attribute without > being horribly wordy. Since alt= is not yet defined in the Web > Applications 1.0 draft, my text may be useful. Indeed it will be! Thanks for this. > In HTML 4 alt= is an attribute for <img>, <applet>, and <input>. I can > think of no reason for <input alt= to exist (<form alt= would make > slightly more sense, for non-interactive UAs) <input alt=""> is for <input type="image" src="..." alt="">. > To produce sensible alternate text, authors should follow these > guidelines:</p> > > <ul> > <li><p>Do not ... > <li><p>Do not ... Is there any way you can phrase these in a positive sense, or at least reorder them so that the start of the first bullet point is positive? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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