- From: John Foliot <foliot@wats.ca>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:48:19 -0700
- To: "'Ian Hickson'" <ian@hixie.ch>, "'Laura Carlson'" <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Cc: <wai-xtech@w3.org>, <wai-liaison@w3.org>, <public-html@w3.org>, "'HTML4All'" <list@html4all.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > The only actual solution suggestion I see there is alt="1", alt="2", > etc, > but it is unclear how that would improve accessibility. Any information is better than no information. It puts the images in a rudimentary context (this is image 4 of 9 on the page). A non-visual user still may have no idea what the image really is, but can be told that image number 4 at the "photo-upload site" is of their grandchild, and they could then copy the file to a flash drive, and have the photo printed and framed for when visitors come over to visit (just to make the scenario "real"). > > Note that in many of these cases, putting the caption or other > metadata in > the alt="" attribute would be harmful as it would merely duplicate > information already available elsewhere on the page. (I mention this > merely because WCAG does currently suggest giving such text in some > cases, > but this doesn't help when such text is already available outside of > the <img> element.) <p class="Photo"> <span class="photo_container pc_m"><a href="/photos/18356286@N00/855450676/" title=""><img src="[path]" class="pc_img" height="180" width="240"></a></span></p> <div class="Desc"> <div title="Click to edit" id="description_div855450676" style="width: 240px;">I snapped this photo the other day while walking around the Googleplex and saw Ian Hickson working at his desk.</div> (slightly modified from an actual Flickr page) ...is the image the Googleplex, or you working at your desk? JF
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