- From: Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:30:23 +0100
- To: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis writes: > On 17/08/2009 09:42, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > > Would it be appropriate, in light of this, to add a user agent > > requirement that an img with empty alt should not be mapped to > > accessibility APIs at all? > > Given the variety of authoring practice around "alt", I don't think > that would be safe. If every instance of alt="" should also have role=presentation then could we get user-agents to infer that? Specifically, if a user-agent encounters alt="" but no role attribute then it behaves as if the document had had role=presentation (adding it to the Dom, passing it to screen readers, etc). Smylers
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