- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 19:39:08 +0100
- To: Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, wai-liaison@w3.org, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>
Dave Singer wrote: > Because of this, we have > considered allowing the omission of alt in this case (when no useful alt > text is known at the authoring point), but we are concerned about this > too, as it may 'open the barn door' and such a permission to omit may be > abused. Yes. Well lets up the ante then. Make @alt mandatory in all circumstances. No @alt, no conformance. Then force developers to raise the bar, abandon poor authoring tool design and practices, and we can all ride off into the sunset. In reality the UAs will still render pages, tools will still work, the web will still grow and evolve (HTML 4 ain't going away) but we will /at least/ have nailed our colours to the mast in terms of our commitment to accessibility. Josh
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