Re: aside and figure elements

On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:19:09 +0100, Steven Faulkner  
<faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:

> hi bruce,
>
> <figure>
> <img src=ceo.jpg alt="">
> <figcaption>Brian Slick, CEO of Blammo Corp, leveraging a  
> synergy</figcaption>
> </figure>
>
>> seems entirely accessible (?)
>
> the issue i see with this is that using alt="" says the image can be
> safely ignored. A caption is a label for something so the presence of
> the image needs to be exposed.

Doesn't the fact that there is an <img> element expose the existence of  
the element, regardless of its attributes?

Or maybe it's just that I have a pavlovian mistrust of images with no alt  
attribute, so I automatically wanted to put empty alt on the image.

What about

<figure>
<img src=ceo.jpg>
<video src=ceo.webm></video>
<figcaption>Brian Slick, CEO of Blammo Corp, pushes the  
envelope</figcaption>
</figure>

My point being that the caption is for both the image and the video, and  
is not tied exclusively to the image


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