- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 08:24:33 -0500
- To: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>, "Hansen, Eric" <ehansen@ets.org>
- Cc: "'w3c-wai-ua@w3.org'" <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
Responses in JRG: > "2.6 When the author has specified an empty text equivalent for non-text > > content, do not generate one. [Priority 3] > > Note: Authors may provide an empty text equivalent (e.g., alt="") when one > > is required by specification, but the non-text content has no other > function > > than pure decoration. Please refer to the Web Content Accessibility > > Guidelines 1.0 [WCAG10] for more details. Refer also to checkpoint 2.5. > > Techniques for checkpoint 2.6" JRG: The note needs to be changed, since the alt="" could also saying that the image is redundant with another image. For example, when a single visual image is constructed of a set of samller images. One of the images could specify the alt text and the others would not need to be identified. Suggested change: Note: Authors may provide an empty text equivalent (e.g., alt="") when one is required by specification, in this case the alt information is redundant with information from another image. Please refer to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 [WCAG10] for more details. Refer also to checkpoint 2.5. Techniques for checkpoint 2.6" >I think that I agree with Eric's assessment about the >relationship between 2.5/2.6 and WCAG 1.1. I am not sure about adding >"recognized" in front of "non-text content" since we would end up >saying "recognized video" or "recognized captions" everywhere. This, to >me, is still an editorial issue: include "recognized" in every >checkpoint, >or factor it out? I am favorable to stating once in the applicability >section (which means we could/should remove "recognize" from each >checkpoint's >text). JRG: I think we can move the word redundant to the applicability section. > - Ian > >-- >Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs >Tel: +1 831 457-2842 >Cell: +1 917 450-8783 Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services MC-574 College of Applied Life Studies University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: (217) 244-5870 Fax: (217) 333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund WWW: http://www.w3.org/wai/ua
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