When I make HTML mail for (solicited) wide distribution, I make sure to
include alt text. It's becomes especially important when clients are
configured to automatically convert HTML mail to text (as indeed my own
Thunderbird currently is). So it's not obvious to me that email
composing programs don't need to make it easy to add alt text.
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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
On Apr 18, 2007, at 11:56 AM, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:32:10 -0400, Maciej Stachowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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
