- From: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:42:01 +0100
- To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
- Cc: "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>, wai-liaison@w3.org
The assumption [1] that informs the normative and informative statements in the current HTML5 spec in regards to alt, does not take into account a primary use case for consumers of text alternatives. AT's such as JAWS and Window Eyes inform a user of an images presence when an image receives virtual focus: <img alt="some text"> announces: "graphic some text" [1] http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20080822#l-271 # [11:12] <hsivonen> Hixie: there's a chance that your assuption that alt text should make sense when flattened as part of surrounding prose isn't the right assumption # [11:13] <hsivonen> Hixie: and that users would be better off getting cued that a piece of text is an alt digression from the surrounding prose and doesn't need to flow nicely into the paragraph # [11:13] <Hixie> there's always a chance that i'm wrong on many things :-) # [11:14] <Hixie> well i don't know about AT users, but at least from the point of view of a Lynx/Links user (which I am regularly), I certainly wouldn't want to be told whenever there's an image, i just want the image replaced with the text -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG Europe Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org Web Accessibility Toolbar - http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
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