Re: suggestions for new roles and properties in ARIA next from Joshue O Connor on 2011-05-10 (wai-xtech@w3.org from May 2011)

From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 19:40:44 +0100
To: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Message-Id: <52413E41-F795-467A-8281-1B8CEF1D14CC@cfit.ie>

On 10 May 2011, at 19:24, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> If role="presentation" is provided then alt="" should not be required. They are the same thing. If alt="" is set then nothing is rendered of value when images are turned off. 
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> It is so much cleaner to have alt="" = role="presentation"
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+1 to Rich.

Josh
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