- From: David Bolter <david.bolter@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:42:07 -0400
- To: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- CC: W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <4C7288BF.8080308@gmail.com>
Indeed you are correct! I guess I should remove role="label" logic from Firefox... Why don't we have role="label"? cheers, David On 23/08/10 10:33 AM, Steven Faulkner wrote: > 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 > <mailto: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 > <mailto: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 > <mailto: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 <http://www.paciellogroup.com/> | >> www.wat-c.org <http://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 <http://www.paciellogroup.com/> | > www.wat-c.org <http://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 <http://www.paciellogroup.com/> | > www.wat-c.org <http://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 <http://www.paciellogroup.com> | www.wat-c.org > <http://www.wat-c.org> > Web Accessibility Toolbar - > http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
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