RE: Action-1734, Action-1708, Action-1709: Proposal for a Figure Role

Hi Rich,

I understand that this question is regarding a specialized case (multiple images in one <figure> element). Please realize that the described scenario is very common in publishing. Further, publishing almost never uses <figcaption> in lieu of descriptions. Rather, we use it to caption images in publications. We have textbooks, journals, magazines, etc. with hundreds of captioned images that need both descriptions and captions. It is important to be able to provide both without confusion.

Tzviya

Tzviya Siegman
Digital Book Standards & Capabilities Lead
Wiley
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From: Richard Schwerdtfeger [mailto:schwer@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 12:45 PM
To: public-pfwg@w3.org
Subject: Re: Action-1734, Action-1708, Action-1709: Proposal for a Figure Role


Hi Jason,

This is in response to this post from you: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-pfwg/2015Oct/0025.html and my action item 1734.

I spoke with Steve Faulkner and he stated captions were more being used as descriptions and not basic captions. Consequently He had asked that a reference to a caption be a reference to a description and by default this meant an aria-describedby mapping to the long description. In HTML Steve was going to map <caption> through an aria-describedby relationship.

... Note: we are talking about extended descriptions in which case we would not want the results to be stringified and I think we can address this by placing a new type of extended Role attribute on the caption area.

Rich


Rich Schwerdtfeger