- From: Harvey Bingham <hbingham@ACM.org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:37:57 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 10:21 1997/10/21 -0400, Al Gilman wrote:
>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):
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
---
I'd be more explicit: substitute for "for"
"describing the information conveyed by"
>maps."
>
>and
>
> alt CDATA #REQUIRED -- text alternative to image --
>
Agree: but how about -- text alternative describing image --
>respectively?
>
>-- Al Gilman
>
>
>
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