- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 12:07:10 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
On 22/06/2021 08:47, Laura Carlson wrote:
> Photo sharing sites should, in fact, require that meaningful alt text
> accompany images that are uploaded. The Authoring Tool Accessibility
> Guidelines 2.0 require that such sites prompt users for that content.
> If they prompted for and stored that content from the user, they'd be
> able to insert meaningful alt text where it is required.
> https://www.w3.org/TR/ATAG20/#sc_b112
How do you force users to enter appropriate alternative text? Even if
you make a field like that mandatory, how do you enforce that they don't
just put a single character, or something generic like "image", or the
filename ("DSC11042.jpg") in there just to get past the requirement and
being able to submit their photo? Particularly, you can't then blame the
platform provider if these users don't do it right. That would be
untenable, and the result would more likely be that sites will just stop
taking in user-generated content if it means *they* as a platform
provider are made liable.
> When user generated content is a barrier to accessibility, it is a
> barrier period. Putting that fact in an accessibility statement won't
> make it conforming. It could inform people with disabilities to avoid
> that content IF the admission of the non-conformance is made prior
> to/along with them ever encountering the inaccessible content. But it
> won't make it conforming.
P
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