- From: Daniel Dardailler <danield@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 17:22:41 +0200
- To: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
- cc: w3c-wai-wg@w3.org (WAI Working Group)
> ALT represents an example of an opportunity to clean up the > accessibility of the Web by improving on the definition of the > Web media. We may think that the problem is that the authors are > populating the standards wrong, but it is the standards that we > have the greatest leverage over. We should not neglect a chance > to make the situation better by what we can change; relying on > what others have to do for us should be used sparingly. Well said, and thanks for the report. I've always thought ALT was under-specified in the HTML spec, which only says something like: "For user agents that cannot display images, this attribute specifies alternate text." The "cannot" in the above sentence can be loaded with semantics.. I'm not sure I agree that playing with the cache is too much asking for a Screen-Reader user encountering this Netscape problem but I agree that the Browser guidelines should make clear what we want (to palliate the HTML specs vagueness). I expect the LongDesc action item to cover part or all of that topic (semantics of ALT/TITLE/DLINK).
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