- From: David Poehlman <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:38:55 -0400
- To: <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: "Matt Morgan-May" <mattmay@adobe.com>, "Dave Singer" <singer@apple.com>, "John Foliot" <foliot@wats.ca>, "'HTML4All'" <list@html4all.org>, <wai-xtech@w3.org>, "'HTML WG'" <public-html@w3.org>
I wish that was the case but we still hear "graphic" in some ats unless we dial it down. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshue O Connor" <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie> To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch> Cc: "Matt Morgan-May" <mattmay@adobe.com>; "Dave Singer" <singer@apple.com>; "John Foliot" <foliot@wats.ca>; "'HTML4All'" <list@html4all.org>; <wai-xtech@w3.org>; "'HTML WG'" <public-html@w3.org> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 6:31 PM Subject: Re: [html4all] New issue: IMG section of HTML5 draft contradicts WCAG 1 & WCAG 2 (draft) Ian Hickson wrote: > >> > Even if there is no reasonable text equivalent, there's nothing to say >> > that a blind user wouldn't want to be informed of that image. > > Exactly. But if you give alt="", the image will be removed from the output > stream, _without_ telling the user about its existence. Please note in many cases this is *desirable*. Josh
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