Re: fear of "invisible metadata" [was Re: retention of summary attribute for TABLE element]

On 6/20/07 7:47 AM, "Ben Boyle" <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com> wrote:

> <figure>
  <legend>Graph of percentage of total U.S.
> noninsitutionalized
population age 16-64 declaring one or more
> disabilities</legend>
  <img
> src="http://www.webaim.org/techniques/images/media/graph.jpg">
    <table>

> <caption>Graph of percentage of total U.S. noninsitutionalized
population age
> 16-64 declaring one or more disabilities</caption>
      ... (fallback) data
> table reflecting graph in here, not shown
when <img> is rendered ...

> </table>
  </img>
<figure>


I like your fallback idea but I personally would want to see both the graph
image and the data table. I'd imagine a fallback being better used with a
flash based graph that falls back to the image + table.
....maybe with an id on the caption of the table that is used in the
longdesc attribute of the image?

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