- From: Josh Hughes <josh@deaghean.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:47:07 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Yeah... enforce accessibility shouldn't be option. It should be the default. And a better implementation would be having an option between "Description (ALT)" and "Decorative Graphic" since presumably the end users of this product wouldn't know what's proper to put as an alt for graphics that don't convey any useful information. I am excited about the product though... it would certainly be nice to have some easy means to preventing clients from screwing up my designs. Josh > > 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.
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