John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Fri Feb 26 02:37:21 GMT 2021
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 9:27 PM Nathan Galt <mailinglists at ngalt.com> wrote:
From The Spec (emphasis added):
Alt text may **also** be used for computer source code to identify the
programming language which advanced clients may use for syntax highlighting
Ah. Well, that certainly doesn't help blind people, nor does it help me (Iview text as black print on white paper, as God and Gutenberg intended!).Still, I see why some people might want it. Then again, I see why somepeople (definitely including me!) would want italics.
.Previously, on this list, we discussed having the alt text be on the
first ``` and parser hints be on the last ```, but I'm not sure anything
came of that particular discussion other than some try-outs in a vacuum.
Well, The Spec also says that alt-text in the closing preformat line MUSTbe ignored by clients.
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