- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 04:26:01 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Cc: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>, Matt Morgan-May <mattmay@adobe.com>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Laura Carlson wrote: > > The title attribute is not up to the job of providing a text > alternative. It's content is not displayed to the user unless they can > use a mouse and beforehand know that the content is there. The whole point of using it in this case is that the AT would use it as a source of caption information, so that isn't accurate in HTML5 UAs and ATs. > The content of the image title attribute is also often not detected by > AT by default unless the user makes an explicit choice in their > preferences to announce the attribute contents. The spec proposes to change this. We can't avoid speccing things that aren't implemented yet; we'd never add anything new! > The set of options listed in the suggested text section of this > proposal uses semantic HTML that is up to the job. As I understand it the only proposed non-ARIA solution is <figcaption>, which is supported even less by ATs than title="". > Authors are advised to only use the title attribute for "additional > information" and not as a full equivalent alternative. The spec doesn't suggest using it as a full equivalent alternative. > Removing title would make the HTML specification in line with WCAG, and > previous authoring practices. http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H33.html WCAG's recommendations are based on HTML4; the whole point here is to move forward. WCAG will need updating for HTML5. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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