- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:29:34 +0200
- To: "Marcos Caceres" <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Web Applications Working Group WG" <public-webapps@w3.org>
* Marcos Caceres wrote: >This is a proposal to add alternative text to <icon> element. As with >the alt attribute in HTML, the alternative text could be used as >fallback content, or for context where an image icon does not fit or >is unsuitable, and for use by assistive technologies. > >Proposal 1: ><icon src="sunny.gif" alt="sunny and warm"/> > >Proposal 2: ><icon src="sunny.gif" label="sunny and warm"/> Using only attribute values as space for human readable text is widely regarded as bad design for reasons of accessibility and localization re- quirements. Also expect pushback from other working groups if you plan to add improved alternatives later, but don't ensure that content making use of that will degrade gracefully in downlevel clients. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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