- From: Alexey Feldgendler <alexey@feldgendler.ru>
- Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 23:04:26 +0600
On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:42:34 +0600, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: >> If <img> without alt is defined to mean that the image is semantically >> valuable but without an alternative text, then the problem is that we >> need to distinguish between empty and omitted alt in DOM somehow. > That's easy enough; the real problem is that we end up saying that > literally billions of <img> tags are semantically valuable when in all > likelihood they're just decorative images. > > The number of <img> tags with a alt="" attribute is about half the number > of <img> tags with a src="" attribute. (1) There are also many <img> tags with alt="" which are actually semantically valuable (2), where alt="" has been inserted automatically by the authoring tool or manually by the author just to make the document pass formal validation. I can't say whether (1) or (2) is more widespread. -- Alexey Feldgendler <alexey at feldgendler.ru> [ICQ: 115226275] http://feldgendler.livejournal.com
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