- From: Jon Barnett <jonbarnett@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:56:54 -0500
- To: "Steven Faulkner" <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>, wai-xtech@w3.org
On 8/29/07, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote: > If the developers of flickr.com or Photobucket were to implement the > recommendations regarding the omission of the alt attribute within the > current HTML 5 draft what are the potential effects upon the accessibility > of the sites for users of assistive technology such as screen readers? > > Investigating the proposed alt attribute recommendations in HTML 5 - > http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/articles/altinhtml5.html One of the conclusions is that accessibility is harmed by omitting @alt because JAWS will instead read the filename (or the entire @src attribute). Is it helpful that JAWS does this at all? Is it ever helpful for JAWS to simply spout out the filename of an image instead of simply announcing "Embedded Graphic" for the image with omitted @alt. Regardless of conformance requirements, I'm trying to understand why JAWS is doing that. -- Jon Barnett
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