- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 01:34:27 +0000
- To: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: public-html-a11y@w3.org, jbrewer@w3.org, cyns@exchange.microsoft.com, faulkner.steve@gmail.com
Richard Schwerdtfeger writes: > > > So, Cynthia and I discussed this > > Although neither of us think that role="presentation" is not the equivalent > of alt="" we are still left with the backward compatibility issue with > alt="". Today's authors are required to use alt="" for HTML 4. > > So, we can live with role="presentation" on an image requiring alt to be > supplied even though it requires additional (and I think unnecessary) work > required by the author. OK. Preserving compatibility with HTML 4 is a good thing. > However, what should be not conforming is the > following: > > <img alt="foo" role="presentation"> > > The reason being that role="presentation" will remove img from the > accessibility tree pre the ARIA specification. If role="presentation" is > applied to an image it MUST have alt="". We will flag this as an error in > the Open Ajax Alliance rule sets. Do we want to create a bug against last > call to fix this? > I say yes, file the bug. This is clearly illogical and should be nonconformant. Janina > Rich > > Rich Schwerdtfeger > CTO Accessibility Software Group -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Chair, Open Accessibility janina@a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org Chair, Protocols & Formats Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/wai/pf World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
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