- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 20:34:28 +0000 (UTC)
- To: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>
- cc: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Martin Kliehm <martin.kliehm@namics.com>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010, John Foliot wrote: > > Sure, but how do you enforce that intent? HTML 4 mandated all images > have alt text, and 10 years later HTML5 wants to make @alt optional > because nobody followed the intent. That is neither what it does, nor why it does it. It makes alt="" required just like HTML4, except in specific cases that were not handled by HTML4, in which case it requires other information in place of alt. The alt="" attribute is one of the few "bolt-on" accessibility features in HTML4 that a measurable number of authors actually _did_ use correctly. > What it should be, and what authors are going to do are two very > seperate things, and we can't change that, so instead we must account > for it. Indeed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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