- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:03:17 -0700
- To: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>, wai-xtech@w3.org
Received on Wednesday, 29 August 2007 22:03:46 UTC
On Aug 29, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Steven Faulkner 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 It looks like the flickr page you tested is a search, which doesn't include the title or caption. What about a page like this (I found it from the example you used), where the titles are included, and are duplicated by the alt text: http://www.flickr.com/photos/11994078@N04/ Based on what you said about JAWS, it sounds like alt="" might give the best results in that version of JAWS. Regards, Maciej > > > > > > -- > with regards > > Steve Faulkner > Technical Director - TPG Europe > Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium > > www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org > Web Accessibility Toolbar - http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
Received on Wednesday, 29 August 2007 22:03:46 UTC