- From: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:32:54 +0100
- To: "James Graham" <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- Cc: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
Thanks Jgraham, As you are unsure about what the spec prescribes, as am I, it would be very useful to get a ruling from the editor on how he intends the spec to be interpreted in such 'real world' cases. regards stevef On 17/08/2008, James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > Steven Faulkner wrote: > > > Hi Jgraham, > > > > So what i can glean from you have written is that in cases where the > > image is the sole content of a link the use of the term "photo page" > > in plain text without the {} would be the most appropriate value for > > the alt attribute (in the absence of a 'real text alternative'). > > as against the title/description which is used in flickr currently. > > > > So coming back back to my original question: would the current usage > > of the title/description by flickr be non conforming in HTML5? > > > > > My impression is that the way flickr uses alt/title on pages where the > photo is a link generally conforms to the spec inasmuch as a user could > probably deduce the function of the link from the alt text. However, their > approach of using the photo title in alt may not be ideal since the alt text > is rather unhelpful in "conveying the purpose of the link". It also fails on > edge cases like photos that have no title and, in cases where no text other > than the title is added, photos where the title is delimited by curly braces > (or indeed cases where the username is appended and the title starts with a > curly brace and the username ends with one, if such a thing is possible). > > In cases where the photo is not a link, flickr is, as far as I can tell, > not conforming per spec. > > -- 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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