- From: Bruce Lawson <brucel@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:35:56 +0100
- To: "Steven Faulkner" <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Laura Carlson" <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, "Shelley Powers" <shelleyp@burningbird.net>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>, "HTML Accessibility Task Force" <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:19:09 +0100, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote: > hi bruce, > > <figure> > <img src=ceo.jpg alt=""> > <figcaption>Brian Slick, CEO of Blammo Corp, leveraging a > synergy</figcaption> > </figure> > >> seems entirely accessible (?) > > the issue i see with this is that using alt="" says the image can be > safely ignored. A caption is a label for something so the presence of > the image needs to be exposed. Doesn't the fact that there is an <img> element expose the existence of the element, regardless of its attributes? Or maybe it's just that I have a pavlovian mistrust of images with no alt attribute, so I automatically wanted to put empty alt on the image. What about <figure> <img src=ceo.jpg> <video src=ceo.webm></video> <figcaption>Brian Slick, CEO of Blammo Corp, pushes the envelope</figcaption> </figure> My point being that the caption is for both the image and the video, and is not tied exclusively to the image -- Hang loose and stay groovy, Bruce Lawson Web Evangelist www.opera.com (work) www.brucelawson.co.uk (personal) www.twitter.com/brucel Pre-order my HTML5 book www.introducinghtml5.com
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