- From: Yvette P. Hoitink <y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl>
- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 20:55:58 +0100
- To: "'Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG'" <rscano@iwa-italy.org>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> Proposed wording: (Yvette) > Provide text equivalents for non-text content. > > Roberto: > It is wrong... I suggest to "cut" it but not "cut" all: > > "Provide text equivalents for non-text content except when the > functionality for non-text content is only decorative" Respectfully, I disagree with you. I strongly feel we need to keep the guidelines simple and leave the exceptions to the success criteria. > > Why this? Because in the case of decorative images for respect the DTD > you need to apply the "alt" attribute but this must me empty. > With your > rewording, this decorative image must have a text equivalent. As I see it, an empty string is a text equivalent too. So yes, I would require a decorative image to have a text equivalent: "". I do agree with you that we need to make this clearer than it is in the current formulation of the SC. Yvette Hoitink CEO Heritas, Enschede, The Netherlands E-mail: y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl
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