- From: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:07:46 +0100
- To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
The Current HTM5 spec introduces changes to the criteria for conforming to HTML5 in cases where no 'real alternative text' is available. It would be useful to have some real world use cases clarified in respect to the changes: 1. When a user uploads an image in flickr (http://www.flickr.com) they are given the opportunity to provide a 'description', if they choose to provide a description it is placed into the alt attribute of the image (plus ' by xxxx'). Is this conforming in HTML5? if not what would be an appropriate alt attribute content if no 'real alternative text' is available? example from flickr with description (the image is of a man on a bike): <img src="DSCF4330.jpg" alt="hubris is a curse by emispos"> 2. When a user uploads an image in flickr (http://www.flickr.com) If a user does not provide a description the filename of the image (minus the file extension, plus 'by xxxx') if is used as the alt attribute content. Is this conforming in HTML5? if not what would be an appropriate alt attribute content if no 'real alternative text' is available. example from flickr: <img src="DSCF4330.jpg" alt="DSCF4330 by emispos"> 3. on lolcats (http://icanhascheezburger.com/) users can add text to an image, if the text the user added to the image were used as the content of the alt attribute would that be conforming in HTML5? If not what would be an appropriate alt attribute content if no 'real alternative text' is available? -- Stevef
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