- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 11:59:44 -0400 (EDT)
- To: w3c-wai-wg@w3.org (WAI Working Group)
to follow up on what Daniel Dardailler said: > > Another convention I remember coming across regarding null ALT was an > optimization of the above where the convention could be stated at the > beginning of the HTML, in some kind of (I'm making that syntax up) > <META name=ALT-CONVENTION content=NONE-MEANS-DECO> > > and the rest of the file would not have an ALT attribute where ALT="" > would be used otherwise. > One might think that you could do this using CSS1 fragments in the document <HEAD>. This violates the notion that CSS just adjusts frills and doesn't change content. The scenario you have raised here is a good example in which to test the idea that some pervasive generation-by-rule [or other abstraction] capability is required throughout, independent of what one considers to be "content" vs. "style." -- Al Gilman
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