- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:55:08 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org, Tomas Caspers <tomas@tomascaspers.de>, John Foliot <foliot@wats.ca>, wai-xtech@w3.org, wai-liaison@w3.org
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Steven Faulkner wrote: > > > > Indeed the AT itself could read out the "1 of 4" thing > > There is no reliable way for the AT to know which images without alt are > important enough to number and which are not. If the document is a conforming HTML5 document, then <img> elements without alt="" text are the ones important enough to number (or to apply whatever UA heuristics and UI is desired). If the document is not a conforming HTML5 document, then the user agent has much bigger problems on its hand, such as having to guess whether _any_ alt="" attribute is correct or not. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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