Steve, What are the proposed accessibility API mapping for FIGURE and FIGCAPTION elements? Is the FIGURE the same as an IMG element, where FIGCAPTION has the same role as the ALT attribute? Jon From: Steve Faulkner [mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 5:50 AM To: Alastair Campbell Cc: Joshue O Connor; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: Re: [html-techs-tf] caption vs alt On 13 January 2014 11:42, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com<mailto:acampbell@nomensa.com>> wrote: I seem to remember there was a big discussion about whether @alt should be required for HTML5, which is a similar issue. I'm not sure what the outcome was, has that been decided and written down somewhere? there is one case where an alt attribute is not required: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/embedded-content-0.html#when-a-text-alternative-is-not-available-at-the-time-of-publication -- Regards SteveF HTML 5.1<http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>
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