[whatwg] Alt text authoring Re: Conformance for Mail clients
Kornel Lesinski
kornel at osiolki.net
Sun Apr 22 02:48:40 PDT 2007
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:26:55 +0100, Jon Barnett <jonbarnett at gmail.com>
wrote:
> By "entirely omitted alt", do you still only mean WYSIWYG editors? If
> not, I agree. The distinction would be as follows:
> (1) <img src="obvious.jpg" alt="obvious"> - This image represents text,
> particularly the word "obvious". Lynx should replace it with the word
> "obvious" and do nothing else.
> (2) <img src="gallery2.jpg"> The image is part of the content and
> doesn't represent text. Lynx should indicate that the image is missing
> and offer a way to download it
I'm a bit worried about this one - authors too often forget (or don't
care) to add alt attribute, and this case gives it a different meaning.
I think that for (2) there should be either magic alt value or some way of
specyfing that alt was intentionally omitted, and not forgotten (special
classname? presence of title attribute?).
--
regards, Kornel Lesiński
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