[Bug 22297] [HTML]:

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22297

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

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--- Comment #1 from steve faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> 4.8.1.1.3 Charts, diagrams, graphs, maps, illustrations
> 
> ---snip of document---
> 
> First, here's the good solution. This sample shows how the alternative text
> should just be what you would have put in the prose if the image had never
> existed.
> 
> <!-- This is the correct way to do things. -->
> <p>
>  You are standing in an open field west of a house.
>  <img src="house.jpeg" alt="The house is white, with a boarded front door.">
>  There is a small mailbox here.</p>
> 
> Second, here's the bad solution. In this incorrect way of doing things, the
> alternative text is simply a description of the image, instead of a textual
> replacement for the image. It's bad because when the image isn't shown, the
> text doesn't flow as well as in the first example.
> 
> <!-- This is the wrong way to do things. -->
> <p>
>  You are standing in an open field west of a house.
>  <img src="house.jpeg" alt="A white house, with a boarded front door.">
>  There is a small mailbox here.
> </p>
> 
> Text such as "Photo of white house with boarded door" would be equally bad
> alternative text (though it could be suitable for the title attribute or in
> the figcaption element of a figure with this image).
> 
> ---end of snip of document---
> 
> I think this example will leave some people scratching their heads. I think
> trying to work ALT text into the main body of the text, does not
> realistically reflect what happens when a screen reader encounters an image.
> Under most screen reader configurations the graphic will be announced, so
> there necessarily be a break in the flow of the paragraph anyway. I don't
> think the first example helps the flow of the paragraph at all. And then
> saying "This is the wrong way to do things" and while presenting an example
> of perfectly acceptable alt text, is going to confuse people.

thanks dave Note this is one of the sections that is in need of update so will
change soon

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