- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:34:57 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>, 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>
Ian Hickson wrote: > 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. I have read the rest of the posts in this thread and I also can't see what benefit there would be in using aria-describedby in this case. Unless I am missing something, the use of @alt to provide alternate text is pretty much the same thing, the same kind of programmatic association. Cheers Josh
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