- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:48:12 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Steven Faulkner wrote: > > Advice on how to mark up such images is given in WCAG 2.0: > > "Sometimes content is primarily intended to create a specific sensory > experience [...] That isn't the goal here. The image is merely a decorative image that happens to be relevant in the context of the poem. > >The above has two problems; first it makes the page harder to understand for uses navigating the page without images, > > lets have a look at 3 examples then, to see if your opinion is born out: > > 1. example with image displayed > http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/misc/shalott1.html > 2. example without image displayed (with alt text) > http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/misc/shalott2.html > 3. example without image displayed (without alt text) > http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/misc/shalott3.html Please use the HTML doctype to do your tests. You will find the results, at least for Firefox, differ. I also recommend testing with Lynx or another text browser. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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