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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/edits.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#introduction-0 Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#introduction-0 Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/ Comment: alt requirements don't seem to cover the first example here I think it's not quite "A purely decorative image that doesn't add any information" (it adds information about what she looked like, at least, but I'm not sure it is reasonable to put that as alt text) See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page for the intended context. Also see https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=26160 http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/embedded-content.html#images-that -enhance-the-themes-or-subject-matter-of-the-page-content Posted from: 90.230.218.37 by simonp@opera.com User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.114 Safari/537.36 OPR/22.0.1471.40 (Edition Next)
Where exactly is "here" in this context? Can you elaborate on the case to which you are referring? Do you mean the "Lady of Shalott" example?
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/embedded-content.html#introduction-3 <h2>From today's featured article</h2> <img src="/uploads/100-marie-lloyd.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="150"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Marie_Lloyd">Marie Lloyd</a></b> (1870–1922) was an English <a href="/wiki/Music_hall">music hall</a> singer, ...
If I were to read that article over the phone to someone, I don't think I'd mention the picture. Would you? What would you say?
No, I wouldn't. So that matches the general guidelines, but I can't find a subsection of http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/embedded-content.html#alt that supports that conclusion. It's not "A graphical representation of some of the surrounding text". It's not "A purely decorative image that doesn't add any information". It's not "A group of images that form a single larger picture with no links". It's not "An image not intended for the user". It could be something like "An image that doesn't add any information worth mentioning if you were reading the page to someone over the phone" or some such but that doesn't exist in the spec.
Ah, fair enough. I think "A graphical representation of some of the surrounding text" and "A purely decorative image that doesn't add any information" are what I was meaning to have cover this (it's kind of in-between), but I can add a new section that tries to more explicitly cover this case.
Checked in as WHATWG revision r8789. Check-in comment: Suggested alternative text for anciliary images. https://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8788&to=8789