[Bug 9081] Confusing alt text in the fourth The Lady of Shalott example

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9081





--- Comment #3 from steve faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>  2010-02-24 11:25:26 ---
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are
satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If
you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please
reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML
Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest
title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue
yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
<http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html>.

Status: "Rejected"
Change Description: "no spec change" 
Rationale: 


The presence of an image is indicated to users of screen readers such as JAWS
or NVDA

   *** Medieval Nights ***
   image: Painting of a woman in a white flowing dress, sitting in a small
boat.
   Join us for our medieval theme nights every Friday at 
   Boaters Bar,on the riverside, Kingston upon Thames.

So it would not be confusing at all. A majority (70%) of screen reader users in
a recent survey (http://www.webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey/#images)
indicated their preference to have an image described even "If an
image is used solely to enhance the mood or feel of a web page."

While I myself would recommend that in the majoriety of cases such images have
an empty alt, I cannot say that if an author does provide such alt text that it
would be non-conforming in HTML5. What I will do though is provide more
examples of such content and in what cases it would be strongly recommeneded
that alt="" be used over a non empty alt.


-- 
Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are the QA contact for the bug.

Received on Wednesday, 24 February 2010 11:25:28 UTC