- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 15:25:12 -0400
- To: W3C WAI Accessible Platform Architectures <public-apa@w3.org>
Colleagues:
We never solved the alt issue, and it remains problematic, imo. Anyone
disagree?
We have w3c.org guidance that proposes alt= text I would argue is far
too extensive for a proper alt.
See the following for an example:
https://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Elements/img#A_key_part_of_the_content
The above tutorial content suggests the following as an alt:
<img src="sales.gif"
title="Sales graph"
alt="From 1998 to 2005, sales increased by the following
percentages
with each year: 624%, 75%, 138%, 40%, 35%, 9%, 21%">
I would not want to hear that level of descriptive detail
every time I sourced a page. Alt is enforced hearing to a
screen reader user--a concept which seems to have been
missed by the author of this tutorial.
This is a description, imo, not an alt.
Am I wrong?
Janina
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Received on Tuesday, 19 September 2017 19:25:37 UTC