- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 05:18:10 +0200
- To: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
I have updated my CP a final time (except for typos that may be discovered): http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/EnTitle Summary: Before @title should be allowed to make an IMG conforming, HTML5 should make it a MUST that @title can be presented to all users. So, where Steve's CP focuses on authoring requirements and puts limits on what @title can be used for due to poor accessibility, this CP takes the opposite approach and makes it a requirement that UAs MUST provide device independent access to @title, whereas HTML5 (and Steve's CP doesn't touch this issue!) currently only makes it a MAY). The discussion that Steve initiated with the vendors showed that device independent access is not a pipe dream, for instance Charles came up with a solution within half a day. Device indpendent access can also help making other elements such as <abbr>, more accessible. It seems like a reasonable goal that HTML5 provides enhanced access to @title. Finally, my CP recommends a warning - not an error - whenever @title is used without @alt. This in order to help authors to keep such authoring to a minimum and to avoid confusion of @alt with @title and vice versa. Leif H Silli Leif Halvard Silli, Wed, 11 May 2011 05:09:01 +0200: > Leif Halvard Silli, Mon, 9 May 2011 23:41:17 +0200: > >> It seems that Webkit's behaviour covered by what HTML5 says about >> repairing for lack of @alt: >> >> ]] While user agents are encouraged to repair cases of missing alt >> attributes, authors must not rely on such behavior. [[ >> >> And I think that you could put it in your change proposal that HTML5 >> says that authors are MUST NOT rely on such repair behaviour. > > I have now put this into my own change proposal: > > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/EnTitle > > Main difference from Steve's prop: a warning instead of an error > message, a different reading of the (browser) facts and other > justifications (plural) for revisiting the issue. -- leif h silli
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