> If the developers of flickr.com or Photobucket were to implement the > recommendations regarding the omission of the alt attribute within the > 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. The inclusion of the alt attribute as a requirement has improved developer awareness of accessibility - we all work with images. The alt attribute as a requirement has played, and should continue to play, an important role in accessibility. ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
