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In http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html5-20121025/the-img-element.html#general-guidelines The following example is non conforming the title attribute cannot be used to provide a caption in the instance: "Here it is not known at the time of publication what the image will be, only that it will be a coat of arms of some kind, and thus no replacement text can be provided, and instead only a brief caption for the image is provided, in the title attribute: <p>The last user to have uploaded a coat of arms uploaded this one:</p> <p><img src="last-uploaded-coat-of-arms.cgi" title="User-uploaded coat of arms."></p>" suggest changing example to: <figure> <img src="last-uploaded-coat-of-arms.cgi"> <figcaption>User uploaded coat of arms.</figcaption> </figure>
proposed resolution in pull request: https://github.com/w3c/html/pull/7
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