- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:13:09 +0200
On Jan 23, 2006, at 18:43, dolphinling wrote: > Second, it could force authoring tools to produce invalid documents > if the author did not provide any alt text. However, those > documents would be non-conformant anyway, so this is not a huge > problem. It is. Authoring tools are judged by taking a page authored using the tool and running it through the W3C Validator or, presumably in the future, through an HTML5 conformance checker. Authoring tool makers who are capable of making their tool produce syntactically conforming documents will want to do so and minimize the chance that the users of their software tarnish the reputation of the tool in the eyes of people who use an automated test as a litmus test of authoring tool bogosity. (People who test tools that way will outnumber the people who make a more profound analysis due to the "validate, validate, validate" propaganda.) -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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