RE: Discussion of alt for CSS images

David,

 

The other issue was what is visually apparent to users who do not use AT (concerning CSS images), but are not getting the images. There is not alt text. Any ideas on that issue?

 

 

 

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From: David MacDonald [mailto:david100@sympatico.ca] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 12:34 PM
To: WCAG
Subject: Discussion of alt for CSS images

 

Reading through the minutes I see there was a discussion about CSS in images... it appears one concern is that it is not announced to screen readers as an image. Although I generally discourage the use or CSS images, if someone has to do them I suggest using role="image"

<div role="image" class="myPicture" aria-label="My dog fluffy looking happy">

This should announce to a screen reader that it is an image and the alternate text...




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On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Marc Johlic <johlic@us.ibm.com <mailto:johlic@us.ibm.com> > wrote:

Minutes for the March 24, 2015 meeting:   <http://www.w3.org/2015/03/24-wai-wcag-minutes.html> http://www.w3.org/2015/03/24-wai-wcag-minutes.html 



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Marc 


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From:        Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie <mailto:joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie> > 
To:        WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org <mailto:w3c-wai-gl@w3.org> > 
Date:        03/20/2015 09:30 AM 
Subject:        WCAG Agenda March 24 2015 

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The WCAG WG will be meeting on Tuesday, 24 March 2015 at 11AM Eastern US

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