- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:48:17 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- Cc: david.dailey@sru.edu, John Foliot <foliot@wats.ca>, HTML4All <list@html4all.org>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, wai-xtech@w3.org, Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@ieee.org>
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Jim Jewett wrote: > > > Wouldn't that require that the image be described somewhere? The whole > > point here is that we don't know what the image is. > > Yes -- but the description, like alt text in practice, need not be > perfect. > > There are plenty of reasons that "good enough" alt text may not be > available, but no one has come up with an example where *nothing* was > known about the image. You just posted your four main examples, and > there was indeed information. Not as much as we would like, but quite a > bit more than nothing. > > You then said that information wasn't suitable for alt text, because it > should be in a visible element instead -- which it could be, if > aria-describedby were used to link the two elements. I guess, though I don't really understand what practical benefit there is to linking the description to the image using aria-describedby. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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