- From: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@ieee.org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:08:23 -0400
- To: "wai-xtech@w3.org WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
WCAG WG has requested help from PFWG in responding to the following comment: <quote cite="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments- wcag20/2008Aug/0013.html"> I propose aligning with the HTML5 draft by saying that an image be marked as omissible from non-visual rendering if it illustrates what the surrounding prose already says. I propose aligning with the HTML5 draft by saying that if the generator of markup does not have a text alternative available, it should use the natural-language expression describing the kind of content (to the precision known to the generator) as the text alternative and use a mechanism provided by the host format for marking the text as not really being a text alternative but an indication of what kind of non-text content is in question. </quote> discussion and status in WCAG: http://trace.wisc.edu/bugzilla_wcag/issuereports/issue_ind.php?id=2615 I'm opening this thread on XTECH because WCAG works on the public record, and to have a cross-group conversation to explore issues and options. Formal feedback will be based on consensus among the PFWG participants, but we welcome input by discussion here. Al
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