- From: Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 10:56:39 +0000
On 2/7/12, Ashley Sheridan <ash at ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > The main problem I see with that is that the <object> tag doesn't have > the same accessibility attributes, so you'd effectively lock out a lot > of people using browsers that don't understand the context of the tag in > this case. I think the better way is to add something to the <img> tag > as you'd still have full backwards compatibility. > What accessibility features, exactly? For compatibility, the deepest child of <object> would be <img alt>, inheriting the accessibility features of img. Alternatively, it might just as well be markup, which is surely better accessibility wise than @alt and @longdesc. Furthermore, you could theoretically link to an animation, a still and a sound and embed a hypertext fallback. (I'm sorry if <object>'s being generally terrible for accessibility has been established already.)
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