- From: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:52:10 +0200
- To: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- CC: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
The mark-up is very illogical, and probably should not validate. But both of you seem to work from the assumption that @role is only and solely an accessibility feature. If that is the case, then of course Lynx and other text browsers are not supposed to be updated to support the @role attribute in any way, and would be right to hide the image. However, in isn't - or couldn't - that particular IMG element be considered having role="button"? And, thus, if @role is not only an AT features, then even text browsers would be required to support @role. And so Lynx would be required to somehow make that link available through some kind of fallback text. Leif Steven Faulkner On 09-08-17 13.04: > hi smylers, >> In this particular case the simplest way of achieving that seems to be >> to retain the requirement for a non-empty alt on an image which is the >> entire content of a link. > > yes on reading your objection, i agree > > regards > stevef > > 2009/8/17 Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com> > >> Maciej Stachowiak writes: >> >>> On Aug 17, 2009, at 3:02 AM, Steven Faulkner wrote: >>> >>>> I think the follwoing should not [be a conformance error] >>>> <a href="#"><img src="delete.png" aria-labelledby="this"></a> <span >>>> id="this">delete</span> >>> I believe this is not currently conforming, but probably will be once >>> ARIA is integrated. >> I would object to that on universality grounds. >> >> Aria is specifically about accessibility for those with disibilities. A >> user without any disabilities using, say, Lynx or Firefox with images >> turned off, would not be using any technology that processes aira-* >> attributes. As such she would not see an alternative to the missing >> image, and would not know the purpose of the link. >> >> We (HTML WG) need to ensure that HTML 5 continues to cater for to users >> with 'non-mainstream' set-ups even when ignoring all Aria-specifc >> features. >> >> In this particular case the simplest way of achieving that seems to be >> to retain the requirement for a non-empty alt on an image which is the >> entire content of a link. >> >> Smylers >> >> > >
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