- From: Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:18:41 +0100
- To: Bad TaskForce <public-wai-eo-badtf@w3.org>
Hi all, Eric Eggert wrote: >> The "Sunny spells" graphic at the very top would be a good >> candidate for alt="", since the present alt text would be >> redundant and perhaps confusing in this position for a >> listener (already included in the "Today" line) -- despite >> William Loughborough's argument to the contrary on the EOWG >> mailing list. > > I’d second that. That image is really not that important. Alternatively > we could link it to a weather reports page (which someone has yet to > create, that would be a nice example for long descriptions of images, > too, think of weather maps or the like). > > Probably worth a discussion on wednesday. Yes, worth brief discussion. The initial idea was that both this graphic and the text in the header area (traffic news and date) *pretend* to be dynamic. In other words, they are static but imitate dynamic content. In this case, the ALT-attribute is significant for the graphic (it could also say "Rainy" or "Windy" or whatever the graphic presents). It seems that this point is not clear and can lead to confusion (as it did right here). The question is could the "in-between" pages clarify the aim of this graphic (and ALT-attribute) or do we need to reconsider this whole idea? Regards, Shadi -- Shadi Abou-Zahra - http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/ | WAI International Program Office Activity Lead | W3C Evaluation & Repair Tools Working Group Chair |
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