Re: Absent or null alt on img within figure element

Hi David, Sailesh, and all,

Steve's June 15, 2015 report [1] states the following regarding
figcaption support.

* IE: provides no semantic information via accessibility APIs.
* Chrome, Firefox: exposes element as IA2 caption role and the element
name as an IA2 object attribute.
* Firefox: exposes the figcaption content as an accessible name for
its parent figure.
*Safari has a figcaption bug [2]

Powermapper tests results: causes problems in 5 screen reader /
browser combinations. [3]

Best Regards,
Laura

[1] http://html5accessibility.com/
[2] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108996
[3] http://www.powermapper.com/tests/screen-readers/labelling/img-figcaption.html

On 7/21/15, David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> I think it comes down to accessibility support. Last time I checked the
> figcaption didn't work with any screen reader.
>
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> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Sailesh Panchang <spanchang02@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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Laura L. Carlson

Received on Wednesday, 22 July 2015 12:12:20 UTC