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

Maybe this is the wrong place to enlighten me, but do you mean not exposed to people not using AT, or screen readers specifically?  Just looking to be clear in my head if this is AT-type specific or not.  For example can screen magnifier access the ARIA info?  I have to say that use of IT without use of programmatically exposed information seems like a completely different use case than otherwise.



From: Jonathan Avila [mailto:jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com]
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2014 3:32 PM
To: WCAG
Subject: RE: aria label on a div alternative text for background images.

[David wrote] I was going to provide advice 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>

I agree with Ramon, background images should only be used for presentation and there must be an equivalent for users with low vision on the screen.  Aria-label is not exposed to users who are not using screen readers.  I believe use of a background image to convey meaning would be a failure of SC 1.1.1 unless a visual textual equivalent is provided.

Jonathan

From: David MacDonald [mailto:david100@sympatico.ca<mailto:david100@sympatico.ca>]
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2014 11:46 AM
To: WCAG
Subject: aria label on a div alternative text for background images.

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



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On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Wilco Fiers <w.fiers@accessibility.nl<mailto:w.fiers@accessibility.nl>> wrote:
Regrets for tomorrow's call.

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Van: Joshue O Connor [joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie<mailto:joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>]
Verzonden: vrijdag 23 mei 2014 13:52
Aan: WCAG
Onderwerp: Agenda for 27 May 2014 WCAG call

The WCAG WG will be meeting on Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 11AM Eastern US
(Length: up to 90 minutes)

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Survey/Agenda

1) Brief item on meeting with EOWG regarding LC-2895.

2) Brief update on progress regarding the review of EO accessibility
tutorials.

3) Action item purge. Can everyone please have a look at any action
items with their names on them and close any that you have either dealt
with or have been over taken by events. Any action items that you are
not sure about please let us know.

http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/track/actions/


Note: You can use ‘My Tracker’ to see any outstanding action items that
are yours.

4) Continuation from this last weeks survey: Starting at item 2
https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/20140520/


5) Survey: Proposed responses to public comments:
https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/2705_2014/


6) Every week we will spend some time doing a review of open issues/actions
http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/track/issues/


7) There are still some comments that need responses (feel free to pick
one):

https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Comments_Needing_Responses


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