[html4all] alt issue raised on HTML issue tracker

[Steven Faulkner]

for those who may miss it:
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/31

interesting to note the langauage used in the description in the issue
tracker

"The HTML 5 draft allows images without the alt attribute in certain
situations. It is unclear what the net accessibility implications of this
would be. It has also been suggested that the conformance requirements here
should be dictated by WCAG."

as against the langauge in the response from the  PFWG

"barring the introduction of new, good
reasons for a change, the failure of the HTML5 draft to make
@alt on <img> an across-the-board requirement (even if sometimes
it has the value of &quot;&quot;) is a bug."


"WCAG WG is chartered to set Accessibility guidelines and HTML
WG is not; so HTML5 should be careful to create features that support
WCAG and describe their use in ways that conform to WCAG."

-- 
with regards

Steve Faulkner
Technical Director - TPG Europe
Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium

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