The WG are not going to depreciate it, there going to make it an option to include it, so sites like Flickr wont need to include them. In HTML 4.01 if you dont include the alt attribute, as we all know the document will not validate.
Personally i think by default its usage shouldn't change, so whatever authoring tools, software and web applications are doing right now, should continue to do the same in HTML 5. So by default they will be included unless the developer choses not to. On 8/30/07, Lachlan Hunt < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Vlad Alexander (XStandard) wrote: > > Brad wrote: > >> Omitting the alt attribute as a requirement may have a level of > >> appropriateness for sites like flickr > > > > Creating content on the Web that is only accessible by one group of > > people is never appropriate. > > That's technically true and even though sites like Flickr certainly > should allow users to provide alternate text for their images, the > question that still remains is that if allowing the alt attribute to be > omitted when users don't provide any good text isn't the right solution, > then what is? What should the spec recommend to use in these cases? > > Whatever the solution(s), there are various different scenarios that > should be addressed. (Note that in all of these scenarios, the > authoring tools should allow the author to specify alt text. This is > just about what to do when the author doesn't.) > > What should an authoring tool (like Dreamweaver) insert by default when > a user adds an image and immediately dismisses the alt text prompt? (It > currently omits the attribute unless the user explicitly selects > "<empty>" or types in some text.) > > What should wikipedia use by default for images used in articles? (It > currently redundantly repeats the image caption in both the alt and > title attributes) > > What should sites like Flickr, Photobucket, Facebook, MySpace, etc. > generate and insert? > > What should forums (e.g . phpBB) or blogs (e.g. Blogger) use? > > What should an email application insert when a user emails an image to a > friend? > > -- > Lachlan Hunt > http://lachy.id.au/ > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
