- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:42:26 +0300
- To: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
On Aug 17, 2009, at 11:36, Steven Faulkner wrote: > This suggestion is based on the desire to promote the use of > role="presentation" as a generic method of indicating an element > should not be mapped to an accessibility API, as implemented by a > number of browsers [2] . the use of alt="" does not do this (e.g in > MSAA role="graphic"), but has been used by a number of AT to hide > images from the user by not announcing the images presence. Wouldn't it be simpler to change a handful of browsers to hide <img alt=""> from MSAA than to get zillions of authors to add role=presentation where they already have alt=""? -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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