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http://html-differences.whatwg.org/#changes-2012-03-29 [[ Markup generators that are unable to provide required alt text can now use a specific attribute on img that makes validators ignore the missing alt error. ]] also in 5.1
I'm not going to go through the old changes and say which now also apply to 5.1.