[Bug 5834] provide normative advice on area element text alternative

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5834


steve faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from steve faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>  2008-07-04 20:43:37 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> That would be wrong. For example, if the image is three digits in a triangle
> formation, and each digit is a link, and links 1 and 2 go to a page that says
> "you lost" and link 3 goes to a page that says "you win", you would want the
> alt="" attributes to be "1", "2", and "3" respectively, not "you lose", "you
> lose" and "you win". Thus the target page doesn't have much to do with what the
> links say in this case.


ok the point being that the alt must contain an appropriate text alternative,
which is clearly not stated curently.

so however you want to word it the, proposal is to provide a normative
statement in regards to the content of the alt attribute.


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