Re: H86: Providing text alternatives for ASCII art, emoticons, and leetspeak

Hi Jon,

The example suggested (and in the spec) was developed by hixie 3-4 years
ago, I remember looking at it a few years back.
I am sure that there are issues, so should have clarified that.
I have filed bug on HTML 5.1 spec module where the example now lives
https://github.com/webspecs/html-aria/issues/13





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Regards

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

On 24 April 2015 at 15:16, Jonathan Avila <jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com>
wrote:

>  Steve, one point of confusion I have always had with figure and
> figcaption is what setting an accessible name calculation does to the
> figures contents..  The accessible name for the figure and the figcaption
> can and may often be two separate things and thus my assumption is that
> setting an accessible name does not mask the contents with the figure or
> figcaption.  This is desirable because caption is often not the text
> alternative for a figure.  In addition, some figures are code examples and
> setting an accessibility name should not override the text inside the
> figure – much in the same way that the accessible name for region does not
> override the regions content.  I suspect role also places into this
> calculation.
>
>
>
> So in your example, if we want the accessible name to replace the
> on-screen characters – wouldn’t we need aria-hidden on the pre tag to make
> sure that content is not seen by screen readers?  Or does the use of
> role=”img” automatically do that?  And in then in that case when the role
> of img is used people need to be aware that figcaption will not be provided
> to users of AT unless it is associated?  I’m not sure how this is currently
> supported by assistive technology but in my quick test NVDA and FF
> announced the accessible name and then the caption but not the text content
> within the figure but JAWS did announce the text in the figure in addition
> to the accessible name and caption in FF.
>
>
>
> Jonathan
>
>
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> *From:* Steve Faulkner [mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, April 24, 2015 9:50 AM
> *To:* w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
> *Subject:* H86: Providing text alternatives for ASCII art, emoticons, and
> leetspeak
>
>
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H86.html
>
> suggest adding ARIA-fied example (from html5 spec)
>
>
> <figure role="img" aria-labelledby="fish-caption"
>    <pre>
>    o           .'`/
>      '      /  (
>    O    .-'` ` `'-._      .')
>       _/ (o)        '.  .' /
>       )       )))     ><  <
>       `\  |_\      _.'  '. \
>         '-._  _ .-'       '.)
>     jgs     `\__\
>    </pre>
>    <figcaption id="fish-caption">
>     <cite>Joan G. Stark, "fish"</cite>.
>     October 1997. ASCII on electrons. 28×8.
>    </figcaption>
>    </figure>
>
>
>
> Also question the use of <abbr> in this technique:
>
> <abbr title="Austin Rocks">Au5t1N r0xx0rz</abbr>
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> Regards
>
> SteveF
>
> HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>
>