- From: Dave J Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 11:48:26 -0000
- To: "'www-amaya@w3.org'" <www-amaya@w3.org>
> 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. -- --------------------------- DISCLAIMER --------------------------------- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of BTS.
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