All, But again, isn't exactly this already covered, and more robustly, by ARIA's "img" role and associated aria-describedby element? (See my earlier reply to Dr. Goss's proposal.) Or am I missing something, which is entirely possible. -- T.J. Crowder Independent Software Engineer tj / crowder software / com www / crowder software / com On 24 August 2011 19:49, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu> wrote: > MartÃn Szyszlican wrote: > > > > I say this is very similar to ASCII-art or leetspeek. > > And there's a technique for that in WCAG: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/H86.html > > > > Specifically, this example: <abbr title="Austin Rocks"> > > Au5t1N r0xx0rz</abbr> > > > > ¿What do you think? > > Hi MartÃn, > > I think that currently this is something of a work-around, as <abbr> is > intended for an abbreviation, and not an actual 'translation' of Au5t1N > r0xxz. The current behaviour of screen readers will be to afford the end > user an ability to understand what the leetspeek represents, but it fails > on > the "semantic-ness" of the phrase. I think that Clint's suggestion warrants > further investigation, and as we are currently looking to finalize HTML5 > why > not ask the question: "can we add @alt to a <span>?" > > (Conversely, might we consider a similar inline element of <trans> > (translation), as in <trans title="Austin Rocks">Au5t1N r0xx0rz</trans>? > HTML.next?) > > As a contextual sidebar to this discussion, I was pointed to a recent > blog-posting that raises some related questions: Do you ♥ words with no > letters?- http://ow.ly/6bPEH > > JF > > > >
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