- From: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:33:40 +0100
- To: David Bolter <david.bolter@gmail.com>
- Cc: W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <AANLkTimrGBks9ZfFPhFvmZbmAfPSX3yiSps8rqvY-HWH@mail.gmail.com>
double scratch that: >i must be going batty... > there is a label role... there is no label role, i was right the first time... regards steve On 23 August 2010 15:29, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote: > scratch that: > > there is no ARIA role="label" > > i must be going batty... > there is a label role... > > regards > > steve > On 23 August 2010 15:28, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>wrote: > >> hi dave, >> >role="label" >> >> there is no ARIA role="label" >> there is an aria-label property. >> >> regards >> steve >> >> On 23 August 2010 15:23, David Bolter <david.bolter@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Steve, >>> >>> What about putting role="label" on the image, and adding an >>> aria-labelledby relation? >>> >>> cheers, >>> D >>> >>> >>> On 23/08/10 7:59 AM, Steven Faulkner wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> If an image has a role=presentation and a non empty alt, shouldn't the >>> alt text be passed to AT? >>> >>> example: >>> >>> <a href="home.html"><img src="home.gif" alt="home page"></a> >>> >>> currently this typically results in a screen reader announcing: >>> >>> "link graphic home page" >>> >>> when the presenece of the role information seems less than useful in >>> context. >>> >>> if role="presentation" allaowed the text "content" of the image object to >>> be passed to AT then >>> >>> <a href="home.html"><img src="home.gif" alt="home page" >>> role="presentation"></a> >>> >>> would result in the follwoing being announced: >>> >>> "link home page" >>> >>> currently this does not work as adding role="presentation" removes the >>> image form the browsers accessible tree. >>> >>> -- >>> with regards >>> >>> Steve Faulkner >>> Technical Director - TPG Europe >>> Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium >>> >>> www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org >>> Web Accessibility Toolbar - >>> http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> with regards >> >> Steve Faulkner >> Technical Director - TPG Europe >> Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium >> >> www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org >> Web Accessibility Toolbar - >> http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html >> > > > > -- > with regards > > Steve Faulkner > Technical Director - TPG Europe > Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium > > www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org > Web Accessibility Toolbar - > http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html > -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG Europe Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org Web Accessibility Toolbar - http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
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