- From: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 04:51:10 -0400 ()
- To: Phill Jenkins <pjenkins@us.ibm.com>
- cc: dd@w3.org, James Thatcher <thatch@us.ibm.com>, w3c-wai-hc@w3.org
On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Phill Jenkins wrote: > Dave, does the acceptance by the HTML-WG of ALT on IMG required > mean that the IMG won't display unless there is the ALT="text" > attribute? Is Netscape and Microsoft part of the discussion yet? > Does it also include other instances of SRC= and "image" like > <form>...<input type="image" src=foo.gif> <object> ? > If these are yes, now we're doing accessibility! Netscape and Microsoft were included in the decision to make ALT on IMG and AREA required. But this doesn't require them to not display IMG if Alt is missing. In general, W3C so far as avoided normative definitions for error handling in HTML. Regards, -- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett phone: +44 122 578 2521 (office) +44 385 320 444 (gsm mobile) World Wide Web Consortium (on assignment from HP Labs)
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