- From: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:00:11 +0000
- To: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
- Cc: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Received on Monday, 27 January 2014 10:01:24 UTC
Hi all, any thoughts on this bug would be appreciated: *Bug 23207* <https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23207> - Alt text should identify image class when relevant The particular case that is being called out is when there is an logo that is the sole content of a link, and thus the alt text is the link text: code example[1] <a href="http://w3.org"> <img src="images/w3c_home.png" width="72" height="48" *alt="W3C web site"*> </a> the bug reporter is suggesting that because the image is a logo this information should be included in the text. My thinking is that as the primary purpose of the image in the context it is being used is as link content, the alt text should be a brief description of the link target only. [1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/embedded-content-0.html#a-link-or-button-containing-nothing-but-an-image any thoughts? -- Regards SteveF HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>
Received on Monday, 27 January 2014 10:01:24 UTC