- From: Yvette P. Hoitink <y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl>
- Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 10:48:15 +0200
- To: "'WAI WCAG List'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Jonathan O'Donnel's suggestion: > > For non-text content, provide an equivalent text alternative. > > If the text alternative cannot serve the same fuction or > > convey the same information, provide a text label or a description. Gregg Vanderheijden's remark: > Very nice Jonathan. > > We need an exception for spacers and perhaps some pure > decorative -- but maybe it is better to have a little > decorative described than risk lots of content that is > counted as decorative. Also may make testing easier. Personally, I do not think the either-or is explicit enough in Jonathan's suggestion. It doesn't say the text label or description comes _instead_ of the equivalent if the text alternative cannot serve the same function. I know that it's implied, but I think we have to be explicit. Gregg: I don't think we need an exception for spacers, that could go in the gateway techniques. Jonathan's suggestion tells you to provide an equivalent text alternative. We can tell people in gateway techniques that for spacers, "" is the best equivalent text alternative. Yvette Hoitink Heritas, Enschede, the Netherlands E-mail: y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl WWW: http://www.heritas.nl
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