Yo herni >Those who add a bogus alt for validation are a subset of people who >include a bogus alt. and what size is this subset (who knows) why not develop a validator that looks for and fails the page if it has bogus alt? using heauristics, that shouldn't be so hard should it? I would say that it is easy to catch bogus stuff at the producer than the consumer end. On 25/09/2007, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote: > > On Sep 25, 2007, at 18:14, Steven Faulkner wrote: > > > can you speculate as to why if there care so much about the spec > > and validation to add an alt text why do they not bother to fix up > > the many other errors that appear in their code? > > Those who add a bogus alt for validation are a subset of people who > include a bogus alt. > > But as far as deciding what's valid in HTML5, that's the subset that > we should consider. Those who don't care about validation won't be > affected either way. > > -- > Henri Sivonen > hsivonen@iki.fi > http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ > > > -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG Europe Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org Web Accessibility Toolbar - http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
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