- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 09:23:52 -0400
- To: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@w3.org>
- Cc: W3C WAI Accessible Platform Architectures <public-apa@w3.org>
Liam: Thanks for your suggestions. I like them and will ask APA (and the wider WAI) to consider implementation. Janina Liam R E Quin writes: > On Tue, 2017-09-19 at 15:25 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > [...] > > 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. > > Yes, completely. In addition, sighted users relying on alt text for > missing images will likely not see all of that text, as it's (by > default, depending on CSS) clipped to the image size and not wrapped. > > > > > > This is a description, imo, not an alt. > > > > Am I wrong? > > Well, i agree with you. Steve did a lot of work on them but at that > time there was no longdesc allowed to be mentioned and no > figure/details stuff. > > I had to stop working on the replacement, partly because of the > politics at the time but mostly because the recommended solutions were > in flux. If they've settled down, i'd suggest: > > 1. the HTML spec should have no more than roughly three paragraphs > about alt. Very few people will read more, and those people will > probably be willing to read a separate document. > > 2. The HTML spec should point to a non-normative document under WAI's > control that gives examples in more detail. > > Liam > > -- > Liam Quin, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ > Staff contact for Verifiable Claims WG, SVG WG, XQuery WG > > Web slave for http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ -- 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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