Re: Request for review of alt and alt value for authoring or publishing tools

The at has no way of knowing whether or not the images are associated unless 
markup to do so is present.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
To: "Tomas Caspers" <tomas@tomascaspers.de>
Cc: "John Foliot" <foliot@wats.ca>; <wai-xtech@w3.org>; 
<wai-liaison@w3.org>; <public-html@w3.org>; "HTML4All" <list@html4all.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: Request for review of alt and alt value for authoring or 
publishing tools



On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Tomas Caspers wrote:
>
> Am 15.04.2008 um 20:48 schrieb John Foliot:
> > Any information is better than no information.  It puts the images in a
> > rudimentary context (this is image 4 of 9 on the page).  A non-visual 
> > user
> > still may have no idea what the image really is, but can be told that 
> > image
> > number 4 at the "photo-upload site" is of their grandchild, and they 
> > could
> > then copy the file to a flash drive, and have the photo printed and 
> > framed
> > for when visitors come over to visit (just to make the scenario "real").
>
> The same would be true if the AT involved simply read out the filename,
> as some of them do in absence of an alt-Attribute.

Indeed the AT itself could read out the "1 of 4" thing -- and at least
then there would be a reasonably good chance of the numbering being
correct, which would not be the case if we relied on the author. :-)

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