- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:28:18 +0100
- To: Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTML4All <list@html4all.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Gez Lemon wrote: > 2008/4/28 Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>: >> It should be noted that some of the suggestions outlined by John and >> myself were previously raised by Al and discussed on a thread back in >> February [1]: >> >> [1] what's machinable [was: Re: ALT issue redux] >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2008Feb/0006.html >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2008Feb/0008.html > > Just to add to my position on using aria-describedby and > aria-labelledby in response to Al's original message. I think > aria-describedby could be considered an appropriate alternative to > longdesc when the description exists in the same page, but obviously > not when the description is in another document. I can also see there > may be some edge-cases when aria-labelledby may be considered a > suitable replacement for alt. These are edge-cases, as ARIA was > designed to bridge the accessibility gaps with the current structure > we have. Providing alt text for images wasn't one of those gaps, as > there is already a suitable attribute. + 1 josh
Received on Monday, 28 April 2008 11:29:17 UTC