On 30/08/2007, Brad Pollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If the developers of flickr.com or Photobucket were to implement the
> recommendations regarding the omission of the alt attribute within the
lines:> current HTML 5 draft what are the potential effects upon the
accessibility
> of the sites for users of assistive technology such as screen readers?
> > Investigating the proposed alt attribute recommendations in HTML 5 -
> http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/articles/altinhtml5.html
>
> Omitting the alt attribute as a requirement may have a level of
> appropriateness for sites like flickr (as it currently stands) but flickr
> should be doing more to encourage their contributors to write a bit more of
> a story about their images - the extra information would be useful to not
> only the visually impaired.
As a default, surely programmes like Flickr and Photobucket can define
a null alt ("") for images?
I'm really disappointed the HTML 5 spec is moving in this direction.
It seems like the only real benefit here is that it might make
validation a little easier on sloppy code.
Lisa
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