- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 11:28:03 +0000
- To: David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca>
- CC: public-html-a11y@w3.org, public-comments-wcag20@w3.org, kirsten@can-adapt.com
David MacDonald wrote: > To facilitate the discussion of allowing aria-labelledby, aria-label etc. to > replace ALT text, here is a link to the previous discussion in November > which covered a lot of ground. Thanks for that David. Just as a note of clarification - we are not looking at aria-labelledby, aria-label etc as full replacements for ALT text - in the sense that we in anyway wish to reduce the use of @alt, or to imply that it isn't somehow meeting web users needs. It many cases, it's a perfect solution. However, as technologies and tools are rapidly changing - we do need to explore new use cases and design patterns. So currently, for example, we are looking at use cases for <figure>/<figcaption> in the absence of the ability - via an authoring tool or web UI - to create @alt text - where the authoring tool/UI may allow the creation of a <figcaption>. Obviously, the above example ties into our larger ongoing discussion on 'alternative' @alt mechanisms and their various strengths and weakness. Thanks Josh
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