Re: ALT document as a note

Hi Liam,

Can you provide your comments on the alt doc in the form of bug reports, as
it allows them to be tracked and responded to.

file a bug:
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/enter_bug.cgi?product=HTML%20WG&component=CR%20alt%20techniques%20%28editor:%20Steven%20Faulkner%29&priority=P3

thanks!

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>

On 18 September 2014 18:01, Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:55:37 +0100 Steve Faulkner <
> faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > which browsers and which examples in particular? I don't know any browser
> > apart from pre IE8 that (incorectly) exposes alt as a tooltip.
>
> Older ones now, especially if there are also title attributes. But the alt
> text may still get truncated if it's too long.
>
> > It was previously agreed in the
> > taskforce I would include some information about longdesc once it was
> > finalized.
> I'm fine with that (I know I'm coming in to this late)
>
> [...]
> >
> >  why would a web site make you read through it as a sighted person? alt
> is
> > not displayed unless the image is not loaded.
>
> The first example in 1.6 does this, using <p id="des"> to encode an image
> description.
>
> At any rate, given that the TF is OK with the idea that the note can be
> updated in the future, I'm fine with publishing it as-is, but I do feel
> (coming at it for the first time) that it needs to reflect the status of
> longdesc, of ARIA described-at, and to clarify the relationship to the HTML
> title attribute.
>
> Thanks for replying!
>
> Liam
>
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