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Bug 9845 - provide reference and info about HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives in html5 spec
Summary: provide reference and info about HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text ...
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2010-06-03 18:56 UTC by steve faulkner
Modified: 2015-06-17 00:55 UTC (History)
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Description steve faulkner 2010-06-03 18:56:31 UTC 
the working group have agreed to publish

HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/


It contains normative author conformance requirements and informative
advice,examples and references which are meant as a replacement for
the content in the sections from:
4.8.1.1 Requirements for providing text to act as an alternative for images
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/embedded-content-1.html#alt
up to and including
4.8.1.1.12 General guidelines
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/embedded-content-1.html#general-guidelines

I think would be prudent and appropriate if both documents (HTML5 and
HTML5: alt) provided clear neutral information about the existance of
the other and how they relate.

For the HTML5 spec I suggest that such information be placed at the
start of section '4.8.1.1 Requirements for providing text to act as an
alternative for images'
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-08-16 21:32:43 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: It would be inappropriate for us to link to all the many information documents that people are going to write about HTML5. For example, we similarly don't link to Mike's document or Lachlan's document. Only the most high-profile of such documents are referenced, in a section on "Recommended Reading".
Comment 2 Maciej Stachowiak 2010-08-17 09:23:28 UTC 
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/116
Comment 3 Michael Cooper 2010-08-31 13:37:19 UTC 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2010Aug/0013.html

The bug triage sub-team thinks the HTML A11Y TF does not need to formally follow this bug. Original submitters or other interested parties may choose to continue to push this issue on their own. Notes from the sub-team may follow in a separate comment.
Comment 4 Michael Cooper 2010-08-31 13:45:55 UTC 
Bug triage sub-team says agree with issue but doesn't need whole TF, Steve should push.
Comment 5 steve faulkner 2014-02-10 09:45:58 UTC 
This has become moot since the appropriate advice is now contained in the HTML spec.