Re: Canvas and ARIA alternatives

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Jonathan Avila
<jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com> wrote:
> The proper way to provide an equivalent to canvas content is to use fallback
> content that is a descendant of the canvas element.  Lately I have seen
> authors applying ARIA markup including roles, aria-labels, title attributes,
> and alt attributes directly to canvas elements.

Do you have any examples of the use of @alt on <canvas>? It's the only
usage you mention that would be definitely incorrect.

> What are peoples thoughts on the canvas element and ARIA.

How "canvas" is backed by accessibility structures, including ARIA
annotated HTML, is a matter of active work at a spec level.

See for example:

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/201

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Received on Tuesday, 31 July 2012 19:56:15 UTC