- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:56:46 +0200
- To: John Foliot <foliot@wats.ca>
- Cc: 'HTML4All' <list@html4all.org>, 'HTML WG' <public-html@w3.org>, wai-xtech@w3.org
John Foliot wrote: > Let's look at this. The text reads: "When it is possible for alternative > text to be provided..." - first of all, the circumstances cited are tainted: > I *CANNOT* add alt text to my Flickr images today because the interface does > not allow me. No-one is defending Flickr's failure to allow alt text to be supplied by its users, but whether appropriate UI is provided or not is outside the domain of HTML5's syntactic requirements. That is the domain of the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines. As far as HTML5's requirements are concerned, the only question is whether or not suitable alt text is available. It doesn't matter whether it's not available due to the authoring tools failure to provide suitable UI, or because the author just failed to provide it. However, allowing alt to be omitted in such cases does not excuse the authoring tool's failure to provide suitable UI. -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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