Re: [html-techs-tf] caption vs alt from Steve Faulkner on 2014-01-14 (w3c-wai-gl@w3.org from January to March 2014)

From: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:01:01 +0000
To: David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca>
Cc: Detlev Fischer <detlev.fischer@testkreis.de>, rcorominas@technosite.es, Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>, "w3c-wai-gl@w3.org" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>, "kirsten@can-adapt.com" <kirsten@can-adapt.com>
Message-ID: <CA+ri+Vn9wMG4D3h05-0_k=-hj5kwoChnnFwPtB0cUmeXH4id1w@mail.gmail.com>

On 14 January 2014 10:55, David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> My experience is
> that once assistive technologies look at an element or attribute and make a
> bad decision about how to execute it the possibility of future
> accessibility
> support is weakened considerably.
>

Hi dave I am unclear how you came to the conclusion about
figure/figcaption, what I think has happened so far is nothing as far as AT
is concerned. i.e. the support is as yet unimplemented and browser acc
layer support is still in its infancy.

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>

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