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/Received on Monday, 17 August 2009 08:43:11 GMT
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