- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2013 20:45:54 +0300
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
2013-06-02 20:21, Martin Janecke wrote: > While I can imagine why an accessibility evangelist would want a > conformance-checker-silencer to be as unattractive to use as > possible, that really defeats its purpose, if it also deters code > generator programmers. The purpose presented is "to avoid markup generators from being pressured into replacing the error of omitting the alt attribute with the even more egregious error of providing phony alternative text". This is rather speculative, and it seems to lead to various attempts that are more or less self-contradictory. Lack of alt attribute is not a mortal sin, but neither should it be accepted when accompanied with special incantations. It is simply an error to be reported. Validators are being improved to let users silence errors by type. This should be enough to deal with the issue. Authors of generators always have the option of generating things like alt="(an image)", which can hardly be worse than lack of alt attribute. Yucca
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