- From: Martin Janecke <whatwg.org@prlbr.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:52:44 +0200
- To: whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
Am 17.06.2013 um 11:35 schrieb Steve Faulkner: >> Is there a chance that use of aria-labelledby is added to the spec >> (4.8.1.1.13 Guidance for markup generators, 4.8.1.1.14 Guidance for >> conformance checkers) as alternative to figure with figcaption or the title >> attribute? I'd like to suggest this. It does make equally sense in my >> opinion and I think I've described the use case in this thread: >> >> -- markup generator has no alt-text for an image >> -- image has a caption that should be immediately visible and possibly >> contain markup => no title attribute >> > > > >> -- it is not known whether the image can be moved somewhere else in the >> document => no figure with figcaption >> > > the restriction on figure/figcaption is only in the whawtg spec not the W3C > HTML spec as it was not deemed a useful or practical restriction when > reviewed by the HTML WG. Sounds lovely, this would indeed solve my use case. I don't know how to asses that the restriction is dropped in a W3C draft but still included in the WHATWG version, though. Is this consensus and likely to become standard or still very uncertain territory? Regards Martin
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