- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 12:44:44 -0400 (EDT)
- To: w3c-wai-wg@w3.org (WAI Working Group)
to follow up on what Dave Raggett said: > > One proposal quite a few years old is for authors to provide > a null value for alt as distinct from omiting alt, e.g. > > <img src=blank.gif alt=""> > This is not just a proposal. Lynx responds reasonably well to this usage and there are authors using it. > User agents would be recommended to default alt based > upon the url's name, e.g. > > <img src=logo.gif> would yield "logo" as the default. > > Does this sound reasonable? > There are better defaulting rules, but they take more work. Have you read http://www.access.digex.net/%7Easgilman/web-access/announce-two.html and the attached note about "metadata percolation"? The proposal there reflects my reaction to several go-arounds on this issue on the lynx-dev list [not a Lynx consensus, may I make clear]. [More in reponse to Daniel...] WARNING: I don't think that we have time enough to reach a consensus on this issue here before you release this draft, even if it's not tomorrow. -- Al Gilman
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