- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:11:14 +0200
- To: "Steve Faulkner" <sfaulkner@paciellogroup.com>
- Cc: www-archive@w3.org
Hmm, options discussed so far (with arguments judged by me): <img src=001> ++ Authoring. - alt can have been omitted for the wrong reasons currently. - Not compatible with current JAWS - Makes automated conformance checking harder. <img src=001 alt> + Authoring -+ empty string can have been used for the wrong reasons already. -+ What to do when authors omit alt? - Overloads empty string value. - Not compatible with current JAWS <img src=001 alt=magic-string> -+ Somewhat compatible with JAWS (image can be discovered). -+ What to do when authors omit alt? - Overloads alt value with a "random string" - Authoring becomes confusing. <img src=001 alt=content noalt> + Authoring is ok. + Makes automated conformance checking better. -+ alt= can be used to specify a string for older UAs. Not really sure what's better. I'm not sure it matters much either given the current state of ATs and the expected date of arrival of HTML5. I think my money is with the image analyzer tools. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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