- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:12:58 +0100
- To: HTML4All <list@html4all.org>
- Cc: David Poehlman <poehlman1@comcast.net>, whatwg@whatwg.org, wai-xtech@w3.org, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
Henri Sivonen wrote: > 1) How should authors assess the necessity and usefulness of each of > these concepts in a given authoring situation? By informing themselves of how user agents will handle each of them in practice. How the spec says they should be used is one thing and how vendors choose to apply a specification is another. So for example by understanding how a screen reader user may deal with @alt contents, or how useful the title element is to a screen reader user, the author is in a better position to make a judgement call on how they should be applied in any given situation. Of course these are examples that relate to assistive technology but correct use of @alt and a good title element can have an impact in other domains such as SEO. There are also a wider variety of UAs to consider, but the principle is the same. How will the UA deal with this code and how will this then be of value to the end user. The world of web development is full of adjusting to these kinds of behaviours. Josh
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