[Bug 10481] Default role of <IMG> should be "img"

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10481





--- Comment #14 from Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>  2010-09-09 10:00:13 ---
>------- Comment #13 From Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-09-09 09:54:41 ------- 
>What differences will there be in an AT user's experience when encountering
><img role=note> as opposed to when encountering a <img role=img>?

Currently, the AT will probably ignore it (as with any user agent that
encounters a role it doesn't understand), or it may trigger heuristic
evaluation depending on content. But I guess, current implementations aren't
the point right? As we are trying to improve the markup language and future UA
implementations. Hence many peoples support for this bug, as it seems like a
no-brainer.

FWIW, the image role=note etc is an interesting idea, but that should be an
expansion on the default which should really be that the default role of <IMG>
should be "img", unless any other annotation is explicitly provided by the
author.

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Received on Thursday, 9 September 2010 10:00:15 UTC