- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 08:02:34 -0400
- To: Léonie Watson <tink@tink.uk>
- Cc: W3C WAI Accessible Platform Architectures <public-apa@w3.org>
Thanks for the status check, Leonie. I confess I didn't check the time stamp and I should have. I'll file an issue on these inasmuch as they're popping to the top in Google searches, and that's probably not what we want. Janina Léonie Watson writes: > 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 That wiki page was last modified in 2011 and it's out of date.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 -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina@rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa
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