- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 10:21:52 -0400 (EDT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
to follow up on what jaap van lelieveld said:
> Make sure the ALT-attribut for HTML 4.0 and beyond will be used
> for an ALTernate description of an object both in old elements
> (like IMG) and new ones (like OBJECT).
I want to know what this means for the HTML specification. In the
DTD we have comments as follows (clipped from most recent public
draft):
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Objects, Images, and Applets in HTML documents (p4 of 48)
14.1 Including an image: the IMG element
<!-- To avoid problems with text-only UAs you need to provide
a description with ALT, and avoid server-side image maps -->
<!ELEMENT IMG - O EMPTY -- Embedded image -->
<!ATTLIST IMG
%attrs; -- %coreattrs, %i18n, %events --
src %URL; #REQUIRED -- URL of image to embed --
alt CDATA #REQUIRED -- short description --
longdesc %URL; #IMPLIED -- link to long description --
align %IAlign; #IMPLIED -- vertical or horizontal alignment --
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Is that what you want, or would it be better for the comments to say
"To avoid problems with non-visual UAs, provide a brief text
alternative for the image via ALT, and avoid server-side image
maps."
and
alt CDATA #REQUIRED -- text alternative to image --
respectively?
-- Al Gilman
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