


From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:58:50 +0200
To: HTML4All <list@html4all.org>
Cc: wai-xtech@w3.org, "Al Gilman" <Alfred.S.Gilman@ieee.org>, "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, "Dan Connolly" <connolly@w3.org>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <op.t9f3kcdxwxe0ny@widsith.local>

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:06:48 +0200, Philip TAYLOR  

> Henri Sivonen wrote:
>> Saying that the program should emit alt='' would lose information
>> about lack of data vs. marking the image as decorative.)
> Why could the program not emit something along the lines of
> 	'alt="<no ALT text available>"'

It could. But it is a bad idea because

people always emit correctly, and get it implemented through the various  
what the lack of an alt attribute means.
hear multiple times.
ensure that they recognise this magic string as being equivalent to not  
having any alt attribute.



Charles McCathieNevile  Opera Software, Standards Group
     je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk
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