Re: feedback requested on WAI CG Consensus Resolutions on Text alternatives in HTML 5 document

On Aug 17, 2009, at 11:36, Steven Faulkner wrote:

> This suggestion is based on the desire to promote the use of  
> role="presentation" as a generic method of indicating an element  
> should not be mapped to an accessibility API, as implemented by a  
> number of browsers [2] . the use of alt="" does not do this (e.g in  
> MSAA role="graphic"), but has been used by a number of AT to hide  
> images from the user by not announcing the images presence.

Wouldn't it be simpler to change a handful of browsers to hide <img  
alt=""> from MSAA than to get zillions of authors to add  
role=presentation where they already have alt=""?

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Henri Sivonen
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Received on Monday, 17 August 2009 08:43:10 UTC