Re: RE: Proposal for Guideline 1.1 (specifcally about L1 SC4)

> I can't quote you HTML and CSS, but in HTML, an example would be
> providing an empty alt attribute for an image that should be ignored,
> and in PDF, it would be marking such non-text content as an Artifact.

Indeed. If the issue were that simple, I'd be all for this guideline.

(By the way, alt="" may be a convention, and a well-documented one, but it 
is not in the HTML spec. The case of PDF artifacts is much better.)

Anyway:

What if my non-text content is in, say, an <object> element?

What if I bring it into existence via CSS, as with :hover:after? I can use 
any URL (actually "URI") I want in that case, according to the spec. I 
could cause a little JPEG of a flower to appear next to hovered links. How 
do I mark that as skippable?

<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/generate.html#content>

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