- From: Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:56:17 +0100
- To: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Maciej Stachowiak writes: > On Aug 17, 2009, at 3:02 AM, Steven Faulkner wrote: > > > I think the follwoing should not [be a conformance error] > > <a href="#"><img src="delete.png" aria-labelledby="this"></a> <span > > id="this">delete</span> > > I believe this is not currently conforming, but probably will be once > ARIA is integrated. I would object to that on universality grounds. Aria is specifically about accessibility for those with disibilities. A user without any disabilities using, say, Lynx or Firefox with images turned off, would not be using any technology that processes aira-* attributes. As such she would not see an alternative to the missing image, and would not know the purpose of the link. We (HTML WG) need to ensure that HTML 5 continues to cater for to users with 'non-mainstream' set-ups even when ignoring all Aria-specifc features. In this particular case the simplest way of achieving that seems to be to retain the requirement for a non-empty alt on an image which is the entire content of a link. Smylers
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