On Apr 18, 2007, at 11:56 AM, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:32:10 -0400, Maciej Stachowiak
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I think it remains the case that for end-user generated content,
there will often be semantically meaningful images that are
meaningful in themselves and cannot be considered alternate
representations of some piece of text.
Years of work on accessibility, and a particular focus on authoring
tools, suggests that while this is certainly true, There are lots
of good ways to enable authors to include an alternate. One of the
big frustrations I find with the web today is using assorted tools
like wikis and blogsto edit content, and not being able to put
useful content for alt where appropriate, and mark it explicitly
blank for other cases.
I do think that for blogs or wikis where you are publishing to the
web audience at large, the editing tools should make it possible and
ideally even easy to add alt text. Probably not a mail client though.
Regards,
Maciej
