On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 1:12 PM, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote: > > > On Nov 10, 2014, at 12:44 PM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > On 10 November 2014 19:40, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote: > > First draft of ARIA 1.1. "text" role > > http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/aria/aria.html#text > > > > unclear why > > <img src="icon.gif" alt="heart" role="text" aria-label="heart"> > > requires the addition of the aria-label,? when img role is overridden by > other roles alt still works to provide the accessible name. > > Quoting from the next line: "Because the element is no longer an image, > the role-specific host language labeling mechanism (e.g. img@alt) no > longer applies." I was actually wondering about that: why does the role affect the alternative text computation? The @src attribute will still work, after all. Why would we want to ignore the @alt attribute? Is there any chance the aria-label will not simply be a duplicate?
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