[Bug 26149] should img alt="" be mapped to role=presentation?

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=26149

--- Comment #7 from steve faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to James Craig from comment #6)
> (In reply to James Craig from comment #1)
> > These images just get ignored, so they don't have an accessible render object.
> 
> This isn't entirely accurate, but the key piece is that it's marked as
> ignored in the user agent's accessibility model, and not exposed to the
> platform accessibility API (WebKit). It would also be fine to expose it to
> the platform as ignored (Mozilla), but that is a platform-specific
> implementation detail.

so how about we change the mapping to 'no role', must be marked as ignored or
omitted from the acc tree?

note: no role= "the user agent has no default mapping to ARIA roles. (However,
it could have its own mappings to the accessibility layer.) "
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/dom.html#concept-role-none

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Received on Friday, 20 June 2014 19:02:47 UTC