- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:02:01 +0000
- To: wai-xtech@w3.org
Jason White wrote: >> Is very important. I think we should request that a missing alt value be >> > considered invalid, although for accessibility reasons it is preferred to >> > the more serious error of marking meaningful content which requires an >> > alternative with alt="" > > I support Charles' comments. > > Furthermore, the most important concept is that there should be only two > syntactically distinct possibilities: > > 1. Alt with a non-null string, providing an alternative to the image. > > 2. Alt with a null string, signifying that the image is an artifact of > formatting. > > There should not be a third - an omitted alt - which ought, as Charles > suggests, to trigger a syntax error that can be detected by authoring tools > and markup validators. I am also in accord with this. Josh
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