- From: Léonie Watson <tink@tink.uk>
- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 09:28:08 +0100
- To: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>, W3C WAI Accessible Platform Architectures <public-apa@w3.org>
On 19/09/2017 20:25, Janina Sajka wrote: > 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 > That wiki page was last modified in 2011 and it's out of date. It predates even the work done on alts by the HTML A11y TF in 2013/2014. It, and other wiki pages like it, are a legacy from Hixie's time as editor of HTML at W3C. They should be curated and either removed or deleted. The canonical guidance is now in the HTML specification itself: https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/semantics-embedded-content.html#alt-text If there are points of concern with this content, please file issues here: https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/ Thanks Léonie.-- @LeonieWatson @tink@toot.cafe tink.uk carpe diem
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