- From: <josh@interaccess.ie>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 07:49:43 +0000
- To: "Jonathan Avila" <jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com>, "Sailesh Panchang" <spanchang02@yahoo.com>, "w3c-wai-gl@w3.org" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
>> 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 > >-- >Jonathan Avila >Chief Accessibility Officer >SSB BART Group >jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com > >703-637-8957 (o) >Follow us: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | Blog | Newsletter > >-----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 > > >
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