<div>To pick up Josh's point,</div>
<div>There are many validation errors that don't cause browsers to stop processing the document in HTML 4 and presume that this will be the case in HTML5.</div>
<div><br>Relying upon this criteria as one of the points to decide whether alt should be mandatory or not, is misguided.<br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 05/02/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joshue O Connor</b> <<a href="mailto:joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie">joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">> > Josh and I would seem to be agreed that "refuse to process<br>> > such a page in the browser" is justified for a critical-content image<br>
> > that is lacking @alt.<br><br>Just to be clear, I would not want the browser to refuse to render the<br>page even if a critical alt is missing. That would be a situation where<br>the cure is worse than the disease.<br>
<br>> 3. WCAG requires @alt (WCAG1) or the function that in HTML4<br>> is provided by @alt (WCAG2) [editorial note -- add links]<br><br>I want the @alt to be mandatory for critical content for conformance for<br>WCAG 1.0 and also [insert new attribute here] for WCAG 2.0.<br>
<br>That puts accessibility into the right domain. Should the browser still<br>continue to render pages that don't conform, yes. Should authors right<br>better code and mark-up content in a proper way, yes. Should the browser<br>
not render a page that is not proper or does not conform? No.<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Josh<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>List_HTML4all.org mailing list<br><a href="http://www.html4all.org/wiki">http://www.html4all.org/wiki</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>with regards<br><br>Steve Faulkner<br>Technical Director - TPG Europe<br>Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium<br><br><a href="http://www.paciellogroup.com">www.paciellogroup.com</a> | <a href="http://www.wat-c.org">www.wat-c.org</a><br>
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