Hixie (not reading bugmail) Reporter
	Description • 25 years ago

As per our e-mail discussion, this is just a reminder that once imagelib
provide us with the information, we should be considering the textual
information found in the image when generating alternative text for broken (or
disabled) images.

We would use the image information after looking at the "alt" attribute, but
probably before using information found in the "title" and "name" attributes.

	Hixie (not reading bugmail) Reporter
	Comment 1 • 25 years ago

Stealing QA contact. Lowering priority. Moving out to M20. Adding dependency on
1994 and 18779 and from 7954. LATERing bug.

	Hixie (not reading bugmail) Reporter
	Comment 2 • 25 years ago

Moving out to the future, reassigning to buster.

	Hixie (not reading bugmail) Reporter
	Comment 3 • 25 years ago

(Troy is no longer working on Mozilla...)

	Hixie (not reading bugmail) Reporter
	Comment 4 • 24 years ago

Removing dependency on HTML metabug. This is not a requirement for full HTML4
support, really.

	Alexey Chernyak
	Comment 5 • 24 years ago

I'm don't know if there is a separate bug for this. It seems related to this.

<a href="foo.html><img src="foo.jpg"></a>

At the moment links like that become lost if image is not present or incomplete.
It would really help if in this case image name minus extension was used as alt
text, if imagefile metadata is not available/present.
I think this is a highly visible thing and should be fixed the sooner - the better.

Is there a bug filed for using filename as alt text?

	Kevin McCluskey (gone)
	Comment 6 • 23 years ago

Build reassigning Buster's bugs to Marc.

	Marc Attinasi
	Comment 7 • 23 years ago

What textual information is there in an image? Is it really appropriate to use
it for the ALT text? This does not seem appropriate to me, but then I don't know
what the textual information in an image is all about!

	Zach
	Comment 8 • 22 years ago

Is this related to ALT tags not naturally appearing on the mouse-over of images?
 I still can't get the ALT tag to appear (as it does in every other browser). 
Weird.  Wondering if this is related and working on.

	Christopher Hoess (gone)
	Comment 9 • 21 years ago

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	Christopher Hoess (gone)
	Comment 10 • 21 years ago

->Image: Layout