On May 3, 2011, at 7:53 , Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote: > > > > <a href="green.html"><img role=presentation src="green.jpeg" > > alt="Green"></a> > > > In this case it should be invalid to have role="presentation" on an element that has alt text that is not empty. Here the image is not presentational. Also, any image with a title attribute should not have role="presentation" either. > > > The only time role="presentation should be allowed on an image is when it does not have an form of alternative text such as: > Flipping this over, you realize that you are saying that I would be prohibited from providing alt text on presentational images, i.e. I am not *allowed* to tell the viewer who does not see images that the page would have been green at this point? That I do not need to, OK. That I am not *allowed* to, well, that seems weird. David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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