- From: Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:50:29 +0200
- To: David Poehlman <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>, Al Gilman <alfred.s.gilman@ieee.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
- Cc: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>, Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
At 8:51 -0400 22/08/08, David Poehlman wrote: >rough as it may seem, alt should be treated as any other attrib. if it is >missing, it is missing. So, you prefer that it be optional. Most people here disagree, alas. > Back to what tools/authors need to do is to avoid >this as much as possible of they care about accessibility and if they don't >care about compliance/conformance, it won't matter anyway. And if they care about conformance and they care about accessibility? So they write alt="this is an image" so they pass mandatory attribute testing, but it's useless and conforming? -- David Singer Apple/QuickTime
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