Re[2]: Absent or null alt on img within figure element

>>  I am in favor of flagging a violation if alt is absent or is null on 
>>an img within a figure.
>Thoughts?
>
>I agree, we should definitely look into figure and come up with some 
>guidelines around failures and sufficient techniques.
Sounds reasonable to me.

Josh

>
>For example, in most situations a caption is not the same as 
>alternative -- although it could be.  Some figures are not images, e.g. 
>code examples, and others do contain images or represent images.  A 
>figure could also contain multiple images.
>
>Role of presentation could also be used on inner images and role="img" 
>could be applied to figure to further clarify that a figure is indeed 
>an image figure.
>
>Figures also don't necessarily need a figcaption -- but it's not clear 
>if they always need a figcaption or accessible name?  While best 
>practice is to reference the figcaption as the accessible name -- is 
>that required -- it seems like figcaption is already programmatically 
>associated.
>
>Jonathan
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sailesh Panchang [mailto:spanchang02@yahoo.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 4:34 PM
>To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
>Subject: Absent or null alt on img within figure element
>
>Greetings,
>Is it  okay to omit the alt on an img element inside a figure element 
>and rely on the figcaption to provide the text alternative?
>
>As a screen reader user, I am not in favor of doing away with the alt 
>or even setting a null alt on the img because I do not realize that 
>there is an actual image present; nor can I use image-navigation to 
>quickly move to the image. Nor can I copy / save the image locally if I 
>wished to.
>The examples within HTML5 specs do use an a non-empty alt for images 
>within a figure which is perfectly fine by me.
>I am in favor of flagging a violation if alt is absent or is null on an 
>img within a figure.
>Thoughts?
>Thanks very much,
>Sailesh Panchang
>
>
>

Received on Wednesday, 22 July 2015 07:50:10 UTC