- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:33:32 +0300
- To: Martin Atkins <mart@degeneration.co.uk>
- Cc: HTML4All <list@html4all.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Apr 16, 2008, at 22:36, Martin Atkins wrote: > * Accept that invalid HTML is going to be created when the user does > not provide alternative text and live with it. This could be > supplemented with a strong recommendation in the software that > alternative text be provided, thus informing the author of his > "responsibilities". That's not really an option. Copying and pasting what Hixie already quoted in his "Re: several messages": On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> On Jan 23, 2006, at 18:43, dolphinling wrote: >> >> Second, it could force authoring tools to produce invalid documents >> if >> the author did not provide any alt text. However, those documents >> would be non-conformant anyway, so this is not a huge problem. > > It is. Authoring tools are judged by taking a page authored using the > tool and running it through the W3C Validator or, presumably in the > future, through an HTML5 conformance checker. Authoring tool makers > who > are capable of making their tool produce syntactically conforming > documents will want to do so and minimize the chance that the users of > their software tarnish the reputation of the tool in the eyes of > people > who use an automated test as a litmus test of authoring tool bogosity. > (People who test tools that way will outnumber the people who make a > more profound analysis due to the "validate, validate, validate" > propaganda.) -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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