- From: Steve Axthelm <steveax@pobox.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 11:20:59 -0700
- To: Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>
- cc: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
On 2008-05-15 Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com> wrote: >On 15/05/2008, Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com> wrote: >>There's a third option, which is the status quo: output an empty alt >>attribute. They'll keep doing that. It will keep the tool's output passing >>machine checkable conformance criteria (and people will leave it if it >>doesn't), but it still doesn't help accessibility. > >Which authoring tools currently do this? Many tools - does seem to be the most common default behavior. I did a little research previously: <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Apr/0628.html> Laura Carlson added one additional entry: <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Apr/0629.html> Regards, -Steve -- Steve Axthelm steveax@pobox.com
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