- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:47:32 +0200
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:29:39 +0200, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis at googlemail.com> wrote: > When I make HTML mail for (solicited) wide distribution, I make sure to > include alt text. It's becomes especially important when clients are > configured to automatically convert HTML mail to text (as indeed my own > Thunderbird currently is). So it's not obvious to me that email > composing programs don't need to make it easy to add alt text. ... > Maciej Stachowiak wrote: ... >> I do think that for blogs or wikis where you are publishing to the web >> audience at large, the editing tools should make it possible and ideally >> even easy to add alt text. Probably not a mail client though. For the various reasons discussed in this thread, I cannot think of a real justification for making a mail client that breaks one of the basic accessibility features that people understand better than most others. And I can think of plenty of reasons for not doing so. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo espa?ol - je parle fran?ais - jeg l?rer norsk chaals at opera.com Try Opera 9.1 http://opera.com
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