[Bug 10481] Default role of <IMG> should be "img"

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10481





--- Comment #30 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>  2010-09-10 17:09:39 ---
(In reply to comment #29)
> (In reply to comment #28)
> > (In reply to comment #25)

> my understanding is that voiceover (for example) relies solely on information
> provided through the Mac accessibility API and does not use the HTML DOM, while
> windows screen readers use both.

The Jaws behavour  perhaps  implies that Jaws maps @role="img" to <img> rather
than mapping <img> to @role="img". And if that is so, then Jaws - in a wider
perspective - seems compatible with Ian's current definition of <img> as having
no default role. It is simply up to the AT to treat it as an image, regardless
of role="img" ...  

Does Jaws announce the image/label, if the @alt is empty, with no @role
attribute but thre is aria-labelledby is present? You said that JAWS sees
alt="" as a flag, so I suppose it doesn't. 

Example: <img aria-labelledby="label-element-somewhere-on-the-page"
src="img.gif" alt="" />

But then, what if you configure JAWS to not treat alt="" as a flag, will it
_then_ present the label?

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