Rahul Gonsalves wrote:
'An abstract painting by Jackson Pollock, done on a 8 x 4 feet sheet of fiberboard, with thick amounts of brown and yellow paint drizzled on top of it, forming a nest-like appearance.'
Interesting -- I'd have never used the term "nest" in relation to that piece. And given that "nest" can be an emotionally evocative term itself, a good illustration of the problem. :-)
So, while it _may or may not_ 'evoke an emotional response, I'd argue that there is some amount of 'data', that we can convey, even to/for users with visual disabilities - and exempting that data on an arbitrary assumption seems...premature.
I'm not saying we shouldn't provide /some/ "data", I'm saying that some people are trivializing the difficulty of creating *useful* and *relevant* alt text for complex images, especially those intended to convey *emotion* rather than simply "information". And that adds nothing to the conversation. -- Hassan Schroeder ----------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-938-0567 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code. ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
