Hixie wrote: >I guess, though I don't really understand what practical benefit there is >to linking the description to the image using aria-describedby. Simple really, it would provide an explicit association between the image and it description, which can be relaible conveyed to an AT user. See Ya! On 18/04/2008, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Jim Jewett wrote: > > > > > Wouldn't that require that the image be described somewhere? The whole > > > point here is that we don't know what the image is. > > > > Yes -- but the description, like alt text in practice, need not be > > perfect. > > > > There are plenty of reasons that "good enough" alt text may not be > > available, but no one has come up with an example where *nothing* was > > known about the image. You just posted your four main examples, and > > there was indeed information. Not as much as we would like, but quite a > > bit more than nothing. > > > > You then said that information wasn't suitable for alt text, because it > > should be in a visible element instead -- which it could be, if > > aria-describedby were used to link the two elements. > > I guess, though I don't really understand what practical benefit there is > to linking the description to the image using aria-describedby. > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' > > -- 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
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