- From: Tom Gilder <w3c@tom.me.uk>
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 20:22:04 +0000
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
So then, Macromedia have today released their new "Contribute" software, a low-cost Web page editor based on Dreamweaver MX, and a trial for Windows is available at http://macromedia.com/contribute/. However, a few things concern me about this software. In the product info, MM claim that Contribute can produce fully valid XHTML and enforce accessibility rules. So I downloaded the trial to try it out. First of all, I just added a new image. I would have thought that at very least it'd add alt="", but it didn't. Instantly invalid HTML. So then I tried enabling the "enforce accessibility" option, which made the software want a non-blank string for *every* image! In the interface for changing image properties, it also says "Image description (ALT)", which isn't that great a label. Although Macromedia's interest in accessibility is a good thing, they really need to implement it a bit better. I shall continue to play... -- Tom Gilder http://tom.me.uk/
Received on Monday, 11 November 2002 15:22:24 UTC