[techs] text euiqvalents in links

Hi, this comes from a discussion in the ER working group. Do we have any
sense that one or the other of the four approaches is a better way of doing
things? My preference has always been to have the image, and the text
presented as well. This could be done by any UAAG conformant browser, could
be done in current browsers by means of CSS for those with good suport, and
by XSLT or javascriplet for Explorer.

On a side note, is there a simple mechanism to make these into a test case
that is available?

cheers

Chaals

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:35:03 -0500
From: Chris Ridpath <chris.ridpath@utoronto.ca>
To: WAI ER IG List <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>
Subject: Re: [check 7] ALT text can't be empty (null or all spaces) if
    image is used as an anchor

When an IMG is used as an anchor, you've got to have a text equivalent. But
what's the best way to implement the text equivalent?

Within the anchor:
<a href="cats.html"><img src="cat.jpg" alt=""/>cats</a>

Alt text:
<a title="cats" href="cats.html"><img src="cat.jpg" alt="cats"/></a>

Title on anchor:
<a title="cats" href="cats.html"><img src="cat.jpg" alt=""/></a>

Title on IMG:
<a href="cats.html"><img src="cat.jpg" alt="" title="cats" /></a>

Using all 4:
<a title="cats" href="cats.html"><img src="cat.jpg" alt="cats" title="cats"
/>cats</a>

I tried this on Jaws 4.5 and it read the text fine no matter where it was.

When the text was on all 4 it only read the text twice.

I propose that there must be at least one place for the text. Doesn't matter
where and it can be on multiple places. Yes, it may be read more than once
if it occurs multiple times but it gives more flexability.

Chris

Received on Monday, 29 March 2004 17:14:00 UTC