Re: [whatwg] Conformance checking of missing alternative content for images

2012-09-07 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:12 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Sun, 26 Aug 2012, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: It would help catch the not uncommon antipattern where the content of a link or button is provided only by a background image. a href=somewhere/a a

Re: [whatwg] Conformance checking of missing alternative content for images

2012-09-06 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: 2012-08-22 3:43, Ian Hickson wrote: [...] the argument is that WYSIWYG editor implementors will be pressured into making their tools output conforming content by people who don't understand the subtlties of this thread, based purely on

Re: [whatwg] Conformance checking of missing alternative content for images

2012-08-26 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Sat, 4 Aug 2012, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: Would it be possible to combine this with the linter complaining about all controls (links, buttons, form fields) have markup that yield a non-empty accessible name without

Re: [whatwg] Conformance checking of missing alternative content for images

2012-08-22 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2012-08-22 3:43, Ian Hickson wrote: [...] the argument is that WYSIWYG editor implementors will be pressured into making their tools output conforming content by people who don't understand the subtlties of this thread, based purely on validator output. To which extent do people pressure

Re: [whatwg] Conformance checking of missing alternative content for images

2012-08-22 Thread Steve Faulkner
) From: Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch To: whatwg wha...@whatwg.org Subject: [whatwg] Conformance checking of missing alternative content for images Message-ID: pine.lnx.4.64.1208211938550.30...@ps20323.dreamhostps.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 On Fri, 27 Jul 2012

[whatwg] Conformance checking of missing alternative content for images

2012-08-21 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Steve Faulkner wrote: The spec currently allows img without alt if the title attribute is present That's a wild over-statement of the case. To be precise, the specification requires that the alt attribute be present, with the exception of some very specific cases. The