- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:17:16 +0100
- To: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, wai-liaison@w3.org
Steven Faulkner wrote: > I am as yet unconvinced of the > desirability of a required alt. [...] >> One thing I am commited to is exploring all view points, before >> making a decision That pretty much sums up how I feel at this point. FWIW I am also not wedded to the idea though I have specific concerns which I have mentioned previously. They are largely to do with how UAs (in particular screen readers) will deal with images that do not have @alt values or a alt="". It looks like older users will be stuck with crappy heuristics but this is not to say newer UA cannot be designed to handle these situations better. Maybe @alt should be abandoned altogether, use of aria described by (or similar) could be designed to cover many of these issues/edge cases that have been discussed ad nauseum Cheers Josh
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