[Bug 9080] Confusing alt text in the second The Lady of Shalott example

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9080


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

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX




--- Comment #1 from steve faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>  2010-02-24 11:38:49 ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> The second "The Lady of Shalott" example would read as follows to a
> non-graphical user:
>    *** The Lady of Shalott ***
>    ** A poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson **
>    A painting inspired by the poem.
>    On either side the river lie
>    Long fields of barley and of rye,
>    ...
> This would make it look like the first line of the poem was "A painting
> inspired by the poem" which is quite confusing.

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Status: rejected
Change Description: no change

Rationale: 

your statement is incorrect:
"The second "The Lady of Shalott" example would read as follows to a
non-graphical user:"

The image in this case is within a link so non praphical users agents should
uniformly indicate the presenece of the link and the alt text becomes the link
content.


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Received on Wednesday, 24 February 2010 11:38:51 UTC