- From: James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:11:28 +0100
- To: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- CC: public-html@w3.org, wai-xtech@w3.org, wai-liaison@w3.org
Thanks for this example, Steve. Steven Faulkner wrote: > future: > <img alt="useful text"> announces "graphic useful text" In a typical graphical UA without image support this would simply be rendered as "useful text" (I see this kind of thing quite often in my feed reader, for example). > <img alt="" noalt> announces "graphic" > > <img> announces nothing This is the case I don't understand. Why would UAs treat all images without alt the same way that they do decorative images? Given the image may well be critical to understanding the page, I would expect a non-visual UA to say something like "graphic [UA-dependent heuristics]". I would expect a visual UA without image support to indicate the presence of the image somehow and provide access to some information about the image. > <img alt=""> announces nothing -- "Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?" -- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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