Re: [html4all] Unready and social engineering Re: several messages about alt

Hi Henri,

> If you are teaching them about writing alt text, using a suboptimal
> tool to find the missing alt instances is OK. (A proper tool for the
> purpose would be one that showed images and their alt text side by
> side for the evaluation of a sighted human operator, as it would let
> the human operator also check that the present alt text isn't bogus.)

I assure you, they are introduced to an array of tools:
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/support/Training/Online/webdesign/tools.html

> However, teaching that making a page validate makes it accessible is
> not true.

Completely agree with you. It is a *first step* in good authoring practice.

Best regards,
Laura

Received on Monday, 14 April 2008 14:19:55 UTC