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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13651 John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keywords| |TrackerIssue --- Comment #3 from John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu> 2011-08-07 06:35:12 UTC --- (In reply to comment #2) > EDITOR'S RESPONSE: > Status: Rejected > Change Description: no spec change > Rationale: There's nothing wrong with verbose alternative text. Please provide proof of this statement. > Pictures, we > are told, are worth a thousand words; textual alternatives of that length are > not out of the question. This is incorrect. Sufficient Techniques for 1.1.1 - Non-text Content: Situation A: If a short description can serve the same purpose and present the same information as the non-text content: G94: Providing short text alternative for non-text content that serves the same purpose and presents the same information as the non-text content using a short text alternative technique listed below Situation B: If a short description can not serve the same purpose and present the same information as the non-text content (e.g., a chart or diagram): G95: Providing short text alternatives that provide a brief description of the non-text content using a short text alternative technique listed below AND one of the following techniques for long description: G92: Providing long description for non-text content that serves the same purpose and presents the same information using a long text alternative technique listed below G74: Providing a long description in text near the non-text content, with a reference to the location of the long description in the short description G73: Providing a long description in another location with a link to it that is immediately adjacent to the non-text content http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/#text-equiv > There is no usability problem here Please provide proof of this statement. > since an AT can > just provide a way for the user to signal that it should move on to something > more interesting. Please provide proof of this statement. TrackerIssue -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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