- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:39:20 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- Cc: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, HTML4All <list@html4all.org>, Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > > And in that regard: MathML has a required ALT attribute, for the > <mglyph> elmement. It would be strange if there would be no checking for > the @ALT on the HTML part of a document, while a full check on the MatML > part. The alt="" attribute on <mglyph> is quite different. The cases for which it makes sense (and improves accessibility) to omit alt="" on <img> don't apply to <mglyph>. The person using <mglyph> always knows what the glyph corresponds to. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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