[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 5566] ALT attribute value sometimes not displayed when image is missing

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5566





--- Comment #60 from Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis at googlemail.com>  2011-12-18 13:13:28 PST ---
(In reply to comment #59)
> > Yes, however, @title has long been used as a repair text substitute for @alt (see UAAG etc).
> 
> You have an opportunity to correct past mistakes.
> 
> Also, 600+ people have signed a petition asking WebKit to implement rendering of @alt based on Firefox implementation: http://a11ybugs.org/

1. I don't think that petition has much bearing on my question to be honest.

2. Providing a @title and not providing an @alt is not a mistake per the current HTML5 draft. One of the reasons the WG let this provision stand was that user agents could provide access to @title when @alt is missing:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Apr/0451.html

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