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Bug 12526 - image verbiage
Summary: image verbiage
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Keywords: a11y, a11ytf, a11y_text-alt, WGDecision
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-04-20 02:19 UTC by Sam Ruby
Modified: 2011-05-10 15:30 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Description Sam Ruby 2011-04-20 02:19:30 UTC 
Working Group Decision on ISSUE-31 / ISSUE-80 verbiage:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Apr/0452.html

Replace the the first two paragraphs of the img element definition with:

   An img element represents an image.

   The image given by the src attribute is the embedded content; the
   value of the alt attribute provides equivalent content for those who
   cannot process images or who have image loading disabled.
Comment 1 contributor 2011-04-25 23:09:12 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6028.
Check-in comment: apply wg decision (introductory text for <img>)
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6027&to=6028
Comment 2 Martin Kliehm 2011-05-10 15:30:08 UTC 
Although this bug is fixed, the bug-triage sub-team adds the a11yTF keyword because of it's importance in case it gets re-opened in the course of another text change.