- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 14:33:23 +0100
- To: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
On 22/06/2021 14:06, Laura Carlson wrote: > Hi Patrick, > > For those situations, Steve Faulkner had a solution in his "HTML5: > Techniques for providing useful text alternatives" document for when a > text alternative is not available at the time of publication. > > http://web.archive.org/web/20200420131928/https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-html-alt-techniques-20141023/#when-a-text-alternative-is-not-available-at-the-time-of-publication-1 Not really a solution, a mitigation. Technically adding alt text from gleaned ancilliary information. An image with alt="DSC1114325.jpg uploaded on 22 June 2021" still would fail as it's not descriptive. Same if the users didn't provide other information, like a caption, which again they can't be forced to do in any way that guarantees that it actually described the image properly. P -- Patrick H. Lauke https://www.splintered.co.uk/ | https://github.com/patrickhlauke https://flickr.com/photos/redux/ | https://www.deviantart.com/redux twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke
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