- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:26:57 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Tomas Caspers <tomas@tomascaspers.de>
- Cc: John Foliot <foliot@wats.ca>, wai-xtech@w3.org, wai-liaison@w3.org, public-html@w3.org, HTML4All <list@html4all.org>
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Tomas Caspers wrote: > > Am 15.04.2008 um 20:48 schrieb John Foliot: > > 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"). > > The same would be true if the AT involved simply read out the filename, > as some of them do in absence of an alt-Attribute. Indeed the AT itself could read out the "1 of 4" thing -- and at least then there would be a reasonably good chance of the numbering being correct, which would not be the case if we relied on the author. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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