- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:08:33 -0700
On Apr 19, 2007, at 3:47 AM, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > 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. I can only imagine it being useful as an advanced feature for experts. Normal people won't understand why a mail program would prompt them to type in some text about an image, that will then not be visible to them or their recipient. Regards, Maciej
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