- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 12:16:22 +0200
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- CC: James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, John Foliot <foliot@wats.ca>, HTML4All <list@html4all.org>, public-html@w3.org, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Henri Sivonen wrote: >> In doubt, the default should be not to change HTML4. > > > FWIW, I have a different view of what to do when in doubt: > > When in doubt, do what doesn't cause harm. > > I think experience (yes, not written down quantitatively) with HTML4 > validation shows that casting an *accessibility* requirement into a > simplistic presence/absence *syntax* requirement does both good (reminds > some people to provide useful alt who somehow wouldn't otherwise) and > harm (induces people to pollute non-graphical presentation with > duplicate data, useless data like "image" or make the context less > understandable by concealing the presence of images). > ... Just for the record: I was talking about what I think should be the default. In *this* case (alt attribute), I agree that this is a good change. BR, Julian
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