2012-08-22 3:43, Ian Hickson wrote:
[...] the
> argument is that WYSIWYG editor implementors will be pressured into
making
their tools output conforming content by people who don't understand the
subtlties of this thread, based purely on validator output.
To which extent do people pressure WYSIWYG editor implementors into
that, who are these people, and is there evidence of the pressure being
successful? How often have they made implementors generate alt="" for
unknown images, instead of something appropriate like alt="(an image)"?
A user converting 100,000 PDFs to HTML isn't going to be entering
alternative texts for each image.
Such bulk conversions can be useful for many purposes, but the results
are not accessible and do not conform to good HTML authoring rules.
There is no reason to prevent validators from saying this, in their own
way.
Take the example of converting one non-HTML document with images to HTML
format. Should the result of an automatic converter that generates <img>
tags without alt attributes be considered as valid as the result of
human conversion with alt attributes added or semi-automatic conversion
(where a human is prompted for entering alt texts)?
Yucca
