[Bug 12590] @role=presentation for IMG should also require that @title is empty

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12590

--- Comment #5 from steve faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> 2011-05-10 14:12:59 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #4)
>That is: they don't read the @title in that case? Do you have a list of AT
>which behave different from VoiceOver? 

correct, any AT that use an accessibility API to convey image information.

>According to Fangs

forget about fangs it is of no use in this context.

>I have checked your table with 'Screen reader software support for the TITLE
>attribute' from 2005, and for some reason, for the IMG element it says "not
>tested":
>http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/articles/WE05/forms.html

thats because i didn't get around to testing it at the time.

>Note that this bug is not about what is *valid*. It is about what implicit
>*role* an image with a non-empty @title in combination with an empt @alt does
>get.

as specced it gets no role.

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