RE: Bug report and ideas

> From:	Alexandre Brillant [SMTP:djefer@club-internet.fr]
> 
> Adding a gif images shows an annoying comment : "The Alternate text is 
> mandatory" 
> 
	[DJW:]  Given the very poor level of compliance with this 
	requirement on the web, how would you suggest that Amaya 
	do its best to achieve compliance?

	Whilst I think that it is incorrect that one needs to 
	include a bogus space when the image really is purely 
	cosmetic, accepting the empty contents of the alternative 
	text box is what a typical commercial tool might
	do, not what a standards enforcing tool should do.

	It ought either to have check box, always defaulted off, 
	to positively indicate that the alternative text was empty, 
	or ought to initialise the alternative text to something 
	referring to the incompetence of the author, although I think 
	the latter might generate less thought about correct contents
	than the check box.

	I'd even suggest that, with a check box, it should still 
	generate a warning, explaining why alt text was needed, and 
	defaulted to not accepting the change.

	Please post plain text, not HTML.
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Received on Monday, 19 March 2001 06:48:59 UTC