[html4all] New issue: IMG section of HTML5 draft contradicts WCAG 1 & WCAG 2 (draft)

[Joshue O Connor]

Ian Hickson wrote:
> 
>> > Even if there is no reasonable text equivalent, there's nothing to say 
>> > that a blind user wouldn't want to be informed of that image.
> 
> Exactly. But if you give alt="", the image will be removed from the output 
> stream, _without_ telling the user about its existence.

Please note in many cases this is *desirable*.

Josh