- From: Loretta Guarino Reid <lorettaguarino@google.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:12:45 -0800
- To: bury.rodan@gmail.com
- Cc: public-comments-wcag20@w3.org
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 5:08 PM, <bury.rodan@gmail.com> wrote: > Name: Rodan Bury > Email: bury.rodan@gmail.com > Affiliation: > Document: TD > Item Number: SCR35 > Part of Item: Examples > Comment Type: technical > Summary of Issue: Example 4, image need alt text instead of title > Comment (Including rationale for any proposed change): > In example n°4, since the input element uses an image, the img element need an alt text, and not a title. > > > > <input type="image" src="stuff.gif" title="Do stuff" onclick="return doStuff();" /> > > Proposed Change: > replace > > title="Do stuff" > > > > by > > alt="Do stuff" > > > > replace "Note that a title attribute [...]" by "Note that an alt attribute [...]" > > > ================================ Response from the Working Group ================================ Thank you for catching this. While the code in example 4 is valid and the value of title will be ready by most assistive technologies, the example code conflicts with advice elsewhere in our documentation. We will update the example per your suggestions the next time we publish the techniques. Loretta Guarino Reid, WCAG WG Co-Chair Gregg Vanderheiden, WCAG WG Co-Chair Michael Cooper, WCAG WG Staff Contact On behalf of the WCAG Working Group
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