- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:10:11 -0500
- To: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, Jan Richards <jan.richards@utoronto.ca>
- Cc: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
Hi Benjamin, Leif, and Jan, Benjamin wrote: > I recommend collaborating with the UAAG authors to ensure that HTML5 > and UAAG2 are consistent: Jan Richards, UAWG Chair was instrumental in the original WAI-CG alt consunsus agreement which said that WAI would not object to a missing mechanism. That document said: "We have reached the following consensus concerning 'automatically generated" alternative text: In order to address both the validity and human generation concerns, we do not oppose the creation of 'autogenerated' and 'missing' attributes where either one of these could be used to make an image that does not have any human-generated text alternatives valid. (Note: It is important that this marker is not included in the alternative text string itself.)' " [1]. Jan explained how it could work in a use case [2] and in an August 2009 email to this group. [3] Jan, how could Leif's proposal be improved? http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Apr/0480.html Thanks. Best Regards, Laura [1] http://www.w3.org/2009/06/Text-Alternatives-in-HTML5 [2] http://www.w3.org/2009/06/Text-Alternatives-in-HTML5#case2 [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Aug/1009.html
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