On 13 January 2014 11:42, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com> wrote:
> I seem to remember there was a big discussion about whether @alt should be
> required for HTML5, which is a similar issue. I'm not sure what the outcome
> was, has that been decided and written down somewhere?
there is one case where an alt attribute is not required:
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/embedded-content-0.html#when-a-text-alternative-is-not-available-at-the-time-of-publication
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Regards
SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>