- From: Wendy Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 16:35:45 -0500
- To: wai-gl <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Issue 499 [0] 2 September 2003, Greg Gay wrote [1]: New Guideline Suggested for Section 3 Understandable 3.5 [EXTENDED] Minimize the use of repetitive and non-meaningful content. A guideline is needed to encourage reducing information overload for screen reader users, and users with cognitive disabilities, essentially minimizing, or providing a means to minimize complexity. Within the Understandable guidelines an additional extended guideline should be introduced that requires minimizing the amount of irrelevant or non-meaningful or repetitive information. Such instances might include using an empty Alt attribute to cause AT to ignore meaningless images, using and empty summary attribute for irrelevant layout tables, or using empty Alt for icon links reproduced as alternative text links so links are not announced twice.... [end of Greg's comment] The examples that he gives seem to be addressed by the current Guideline 1.1 Level 1 Success Criterion #4 "Non-text content that does not provide information, functionality, or sensory experience is marked such that it can be ignored by assistive technology." I propose that we close issue 499 since this issue seems to be addressed by Guideline 1.1. --wendy [0] <http://trace.wisc.edu/bugzilla_wcag/show_bug.cgi?id=499> [1] <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2003Sep/0000.html> -- wendy a chisholm world wide web consortium web accessibility initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI/ /--
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