- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 22:44:46 +0200
- To: Bruce Lawson <brucel@opera.com>
- Cc: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Shelley Powers <shelleyp@burningbird.net>, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Bruce Lawson, Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:55:59 +0100: > On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:05:25 +0100, Laura Carlson > <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Bruce, >> >>>> I couldn't accept that; it's throwing the baby out with the bath water. >>>> I'd rather some ambiguity between aside and figure in edge cases than the >>>> inability to have a video or a data table as an illustrative figure. >> >> Hmmm. You said, "a video or a data table". In the singular. Is that >> the key, Bruce? What do you think of restricting figure to a single >> element as content to help simplify? > > No - I think the example of one figure, multiple images in > http://html5doctor.com/the-figure-figcaption-elements/ is legitimate In that example, you treat the 3 images as one thing. Thus, you could have done this: <figure role="img" > <img src="/kookaburra.jpg" alt="Kooaburra"> <img src="/pelican.jpg" alt="Pelican stood on the beach"> <img src="/lorikeet.jpg" alt="Cheeky looking Rainbow Lorikeet"> <figcaption>Australian Birds. From left to right, Kookburra, Pelican and Rainbow Lorikeet. Originals by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rclark/">Richard Clark</a></figcaption> </figure> Or this: <figure role="img" > <div role="group"> <img src="/kookaburra.jpg" alt="Kooaburra"> <img src="/pelican.jpg" alt="Pelican stood on the beach"> <img src="/lorikeet.jpg" alt="Cheeky looking Rainbow Lorikeet"> </div> <figcaption>Australian Birds. From left to right, Kookburra, Pelican and Rainbow Lorikeet. Originals by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rclark/">Richard Clark</a></figcaption> </figure> Or like this: <figure role="img" > <article> <img src="/kookaburra.jpg" alt="Kooaburra"> <img src="/pelican.jpg" alt="Pelican stood on the beach"> <img src="/lorikeet.jpg" alt="Cheeky looking Rainbow Lorikeet"> </article> <figcaption>Australian Birds. From left to right, Kookburra, Pelican and Rainbow Lorikeet. Originals by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rclark/">Richard Clark</a></figcaption> </figure> PS: I have a filed bug 751 with Validator.nu: [1] ]] Validator.nu doesn't see <figure role=img> as valid, despite lack of spec prohibition [[ [1] http://bugzilla.validator.nu/show_bug.cgi?id=751 -- leif halvard silli
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