- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:04:23 +0200
- To: "www-validator@w3.org" <www-validator@w3.org>
- CC: Jay Litwyn <brewhaha@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>
2011-12-12 16:25, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > I did not find the original document where the problem manifested > itself. But it sounds as if you say that the HTML5 validator never > issues an error message when @alt is lacking. I wrote about the specific case. The issue can be reconstructed: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/test/alt.html (It's a copy of the page as it is now, except that I removed the alt attribute from the first <img> tag.) > But that is not how it > is. Here is a test in validator.nu - validator.w3.org gives the same > result - where there is an error due to lack of @alt: It's rather questionable, for a checking tool, to report some issue in some situations and be silent about it in others, without giving a clue of what this depends on. Yucca
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