- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 22:42:10 -0700
- To: "Jim Ley" <jim@jibbering.com>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 2:07 PM +0000 2001/10/25, Jim Ley wrote: > > How do you test that the text (alt) applies to the image? > >It's a property of the IMG, therefore you know that it applies to the >image (simply by definition). There are no mechanisms in current HTML, >for saying "this is some alternative content/ an illustration for this >element" - so it's impossible for a tool to know what an image on a page >"applies to". So HTML is an incredibly bad format for expressing accessible content -- but we need to make sure that we don't simply use that as an excuse to continue the problem. Maybe we need to send a strongly worded opinion to the XHTML working group that draws attention to this problem. --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@reef.com> Technical Developer Liaison Reef North America Accessibility - W3C - Integrator Network ________________________________________ BUSINESS IS DYNAMIC. TAKE CONTROL. ________________________________________ http://www.reef.com
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