Re: [html4all] HTML5 Alternative Text, and Authoring Tools

At 12:45 8/05/2008, David Poehlman wrote:

>it's always possible <g>

The trouble is that many accessibility experts agree that it is 
always possible, while the HTML 5 editors claim it isn't. If experts 
can't agree on it, we can't expect outsiders to get it right. That 
causes a loophole in the specification.

Best regards,

Christophe


>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Christophe Strobbe" <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
>To: "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
>Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 6:21 AM
>Subject: Re: [html4all] HTML5 Alternative Text, and Authoring Tools
>
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>
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>At 15:01 2/05/2008, Smylers wrote:
> >(...)
> >However, for all sites which are currently valid HTML 4 -- that is, they
> >provide genuine alt text -- the requirements are exactly the same in
> >HTML 5; that alt text is still mandatory.  There is no option for the
> >author to omit it.
>
>There is a loophole in the requirements. The spec says:
>"When it is possible for alternative text to be provided, (...), text
>that conveys can serve as a substitute for the image must be given as
>the contents of the alt attribute."
>
>"When it is possible" is too subjective and I doubt that it meets W3C
>QA guidelines, as I explained at
><http://juicystudio.com/article/html5-alt-text-authoring-tools.php#comment29>.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Christophe

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