- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:46:43 +0100
- To: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote: > "It would be interesting to know what would happen if UAs simply rendered@title when @alt is absent." > > This is prohibited in the spec. Yes, I think that's a dangerous prohibition. > So the use of title would undermine the detailed usage rules of alt that provide end users with meaningful text alternatives. I don't follow this step. > Even if the title were rendered like alt it does not solve the many other accessibility issues to do with title. Yes, but those need to be solved anyway. > Title content is meant to be available to all at any time, not only when images are disabled. Yes. That's not incompatible with displaying @title when images are disabled and @alt is missing. > Currently it is not nor has it been and 2 vendors have indicated no plans to change this. Indeed, and I think the reluctance of vendors to change how @title is implemented is the strongest argument against the Chair's decision. But I think this reluctance may perhaps be blocking a technically superior approach. I think one of the vendor's mentioned the need for design input, so it does seem like there's more conversation to be had about this. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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