Re: aria label on a div alternative text for background images.

Hi Ramon and Jonathan...

I'm hearing you say, some low vision users will be turning off their CSS,
or changing it, and therefore any CSS images that convey meaning will be
lost unless there is a visual text replacement. I'm hearing Ramon say that
further to that, even CSS background images that are decorative mess up
colour foreground/background adjustments. Do I have that right Ramon?

We currently don't have an explicit failure for providing CSS background
images for content if there is a text alternative, would either of you like
to propose a failure.

I'm having a hard time mapping it to any current failure. I'd say we
haven't done much in WCAG 2 to ensure flexibility with colours. There is
only one failure I know of. http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/F24.html  and
that is for 1.4.3.

Ps Ramon... I posted the wrong example earlier it here's.
http://davidmacd.com/test/aria-label-on-div-surrounding-text.html

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On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 11:45 AM, David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca>wrote:

> I've been coming across lots of CSS images in background lately.
>
>    1. I was going to provide advise to use aria label  on the div like
>    this with the view to make a technique for us. <div role=image
>    class="backgroundimage" aria-label="this is the aria label">Some test
>    text</a></div>
>    2. But neither NVDA or JAWS most recent versions in most recent
>    versions of FF and IE read the aria label. SAFARI and VoiceOver worked
>    however...
>    3. I looked it up in the ARIA test harness and the aria label should
>    report to the API...
>
> have other people had this experience.
> Test page:
>
> http://davidmacd.com/test/aria-label-on-div-surrounding-image-with-alt-text.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> David MacDonald
>
>
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> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Wilco Fiers <w.fiers@accessibility.nl>wrote:
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