Re: DRAFT response Re[2]: Request for PFWG WAI review of Omitting ?alt Attribute for Critical Content

David Poehlman wrote:
> Surely, there is no element or attribute anywhere in any spec that would 
> say, when you publish your documents, not only must you use an alt attrib, 
> you also must write into it that the image is not important if it is not 
> important.

I don't see this as being any different from, say in HTML 4.01, 
recognised link types

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-links

recognised media types

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-media-descriptors

IANA registry charsets

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-charset

etc. Or am I missing something fundamental in your argument?

P
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