Re: Another summary of alt="" issues and why the spec says what it says

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Jim Jewett wrote:
> On 4/17/08, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Jim Jewett wrote:
> 
> >>> ... sometimes there simply is no alternative text available.
> 
> >>> [examples]
> 
> >> [proposed (imperfect) alt text that actually was available]
> 
> > That would be a fine caption -- but as it should be visible to 
> > everyone,
> 
> How about making the alt optional if -- and only if -- the img has an 
> aria-describedby attribute?

Wouldn't that require that the image be described somewhere? The whole 
point here is that we don't know what the image is.

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