- From: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 11:42:34 +1000
- To: "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 01:08:51PM +0100, Sean Hayes wrote: > I agree that allowing the src as an alternative to the markup content, rather than the other way around is a better solution for many reasons, including accessibility and internationalisation. However XHTML doesnt solve the key issue in what would: > <p src="anImage" /> mean to a screen reader? In XHTMl 2.0, fortunately, it wouldn't be accepted by the XML parser, but <p src="image.png"></p> would, and the result for the screen reader would be the same as <img alt="" src="image.png"> By convention, this means that the image is purely decorative and unimportant; it's a flag to the screen reader asserting that the image should be ignored. Now in the case of XHTML 2.0, one might want to modify this convention slightly: if it's on a block-level element perhaps it's less likely to be purely decorative, and maybe the user should be notified in that circumstance. Or perhaps the convention should be retained as is.
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