- From: Jan Richards <jan.richards@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:34:18 -0400
- To: WAI-UA list <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
Here's a stab at a potential UAWG position: 1. As a general rule, the UAWG has the expectation that markup languages will differentiate between any two cases in which a user agent would be expected to have different behaviors. (e.g., alt="" (by itself) can't simultaneously mean (1) aural browsers should attempt to find a value for the attribute from elsewhere and (2) aural browsers should ignore the image). 2. In deciding how to differentiate two cases that previously were not differentiated, backwards compatibility may not always be possible to maintain. (e.g. the signal for aural browsers to ignore an image might change from @alt="" to @decoration or something similar). Cheers, Jan
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