Re: Image alt in WAI process intro

EOWG folks,

Thanks for the comments and discussions on the EOWG mailing list[1]! Based on all the feedback[2], I plan to use very minimal alt text:

1. "draft documents" for Working Draft
2. "complete technical report" for Last Call Working Draft
3.  "using computer with technical report" for Candidate Recommendation (other ideas include: "using computer", "developing Web project with technical report", "developing with technical report")
4. "endorsing technical report" for Proposed Recommendation
5. "finalized technical report" for W3C Recommendation (other ideas include: "final technical report", "approved technical report", "technical report with gold seal")

Feedback welcome.

Best,
~ Shawn

fyi, the previous version with the long alt is available from the "reference" section of the changelog at:
	http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/changelogs/cl-process.html#refs

[1] to the "Image alt in WAI process intro" email thread starting at:
	http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-eo/2006JulSep/0106.html

[2] particularly:

Sylvie Duchateau wrote:
Empty alt tags... does not give equivalent information as the information provided by the images. 
There should be a short text equivalent of each image that should not explain what the images look like, but this text equivalent should explain which information they try to provide. 

Swan, Henny wrote:
These images... do add a little value visually 
as they give a little context and almost act as a summary for the 
associated text. If this can be captured in the ALT text then it may be 
worth having descriptive ALT text as they are strictly speaking 
informative images.

Received on Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:41:39 UTC