Re: alt attribute comments?

Hi Anne,
apologies for my tardiness in replying,

>As for finding it necessary, I do think that would be one of the reasons.
>Say you have 300 photos and you want to share them online as quickly as
>possible and you want to pass machine checkable validation. What to do?
>(Consider that most authors will take the easiest option and that the
>easiest option might be bad for accessibility if alt= is mandated, etc.)

I wonder at what level does it stop? If I have 100 or 50 0r 10 photos that i
want to share, is it OK then to not include the alt attribute? Then if its
OK  for 10 why not 1.

both options are bad for accessibility (either no alt attribute for any
image or alt="" on an image that contains information not provided elsewhere
in associated text content).

> I'm not sure what other meaning the _user agent_ can extract from alt=""
>than simply acting as if it was not there.

This is the same as what AT UA's do for no alt attribute under most
circumstances. As no useful info can be provided to the user unless someone
has provided that info in the first place.

 >I may have misunderstood your survey, dunno. I thought I read that they
>are either ignored or that in the case of <a> around <img> some file name
>stuff is done which seemed pretty horrible. If I misunderstood that please
>let me know.

no i had misread what you wrote.


See Ya!

On 21/09/2007, Anne van Kesteren < annevk@opera.com > wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I happend to notice
> http://html4all.org/pipermail
> /list_html4all.org/2007-September/000375.html<http://html4all.org/pipermail/list_html4all.org/2007-September/000375.html>
> and had some remarks:
>
> As for finding it necessary, I do think that would be one of the reasons.
> Say you have 300 photos and you want to share them online as quickly as
> possible and you want to pass machine checkable validation. What to do?
> (Consider that most authors will take the easiest option and that the
> easiest option might be bad for accessibility if alt= is mandated, etc.)
>
> I'm not sure what other meaning the _user agent_ can extract from alt=""
> than simply acting as if it was not there. The reason for specifying
> alt="" may very well vary, but that was not what that paragraph was about.
>
>
> I may have misunderstood your survey, dunno. I thought I read that they
> are either ignored or that in the case of <a> around <img> some file name
> stuff is done which seemed pretty horrible. If I misunderstood that please
>
> let me know.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> --
> Anne van Kesteren
> <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
> < http://www.opera.com/>
>



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Steve Faulkner
Technical Director - TPG Europe
Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium

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