- From: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:09:58 +0100
- To: david bolter <david.bolter@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, David Bolter <dbolter@mozilla.com>, Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>, Cynthia Shelly <cyns@microsoft.com>, Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>
Thanks Dave, so just to be clear; are you aware of any concrete plans to rectify the accessibility issues with title attribute display in firefox in the next release? Or the release after that? Or within a given time frame? regards Stevef On 20 April 2011 16:00, david bolter <david.bolter@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not optimistic about this all getting satisfactorily designed and > implemented soon. > > I think we need to have a good UI design in hand. I'm adding Joseph to the > cc list as he's thought a lot about keyboard interaction. I also think Earl > Johnson's keyboard proposal (table 2 and 3) is probably helpful here: > http://dev.aol.com/downloads/kbd-nav--popup-tool-bubble-022808.html > > How would the user move focus to the image? Would it be in the tab order? > > Would you want us to pursue implementing this regardless of the alt/title > conformance decisions? > > Cheers, > David > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> A recent decision by the HTML working group makes it conforming to >> provide caption content for images whilst omitting the alt attribute. >> This is problematic because while alt is designed to be presented to >> users when the image cannot be viewed, and it is implemented as such. >> The title attribute is for advisory information that should be >> available to all users at any time. This is not the case and has never >> been the case in any graphical browser. >> >> Can any of the representatives from browser vendors provide >> information as to when the title attribute will be implemented so: >> >> * keyboard only users are aware that a title attribute is present on an >> element? >> * keyboard only users are able to access the title attribute content >> on an element using the keyboard? >> * The display of the title attribute content is configurable so that >> users of screen magnifiers are able view title attribute content >> within the viewport? >> * access to title attribute content will be available on mobile and >> touch browsers? >> >> >> >> -- >> with regards >> >> Steve Faulkner >> > > -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG www.paciellogroup.com | www.HTML5accessibility.com | www.twitter.com/stevefaulkner HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives - dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/ Web Accessibility Toolbar - www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
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