- From: Olivier GENDRIN <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 14:03:00 +0200
- To: public-html@w3.org
On 9/6/07, Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl> wrote: > > At 10:10 +0200 UTC, on 2007-09-06, Olivier GENDRIN wrote: > > > On 9/5/07, Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl> wrote: > >> Considering all that, is there really a need for both a short and a long > >> equivalent? > > > > An example from > > http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/tables.html#h-11.1 > > : http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/images/mergedcells.gif. > > > > (I only consider the image, not the text surrounding it). If the image > > is used without proper explanations in the text, how could you give a > > short alternative *and* a full description of it's content ? > > I'm not sure I understand. Why would using two <alt> elements, as in my > previous message, not work in this particular case? > > Btw, something cute about this example is that it shows how easily an author > could provide even much richer equivalents, serving more browsing > environments better: > > <img id="mergedcells" src="mergedcells.gif"> > <!-- anything or nothing --> > <alt for="mergedcells" title="short textual equivalent" > type="text/html">blah</alt> > <alt for="mergedcells" title="long description" type="text/html>blah, > blah</alt> > <alt for="mergedcells" title="tabular equivalent" type="text/html"> > <table border="1" summary="This table gives some statistics about fruit > flies: average height and weight, and percentage with red eyes (for both > males and females)."> > <caption><em>A test table with merged cells</em></caption> > <tr><th rowspan="2"><th colspan="2">Average > <th rowspan="2">Red<br>eyes > <tr><th>height<th>weight > <tr><th>Males<td>1.9<td>0.003<td>40% > <tr><th>Females<td>1.7<td>0.002<td>43% > </table> > </alt> Ok, I understand better what you meant. But in that case, I wish that your 3 titles where replaced by an attribute that would said : 'alternative', 'short description', 'long description' (@role ?). -- Olivier G. http://www.lespacedunmatin.info/blog/
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