- From: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 12:05:33 -0700
- To: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Hi Steve, what about an explicit alt="" inside a link? <a href="/path/about_us.html"><img src="contact.png" alt=""></a> On May 10, 2011, at 11:58 AM, James Craig wrote: > On May 10, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Steve Faulkner wrote: > >> hi james, just a point of clarification: >> >> an <img> without alt is not mapped to role=presentation in HTML5 >> >> only <img alt=""> > > Okay good. Thanks for the clarification. > > Even so, this is where the bug lies, correct? > > <img src="contact.png" alt="" title="contact"> > <img src="contact.png" alt="" aria-label="contact"> > > Perhaps the bug could be updated so that if was presentational if: >>> • the author explicitly provided a role of presentation on the img tag, <img role="presentation"> >>> • the host language labeling mechanism (in this case @alt) equaled an empty string, *AND* the ARIA text alternative computation [1] equaled an empty string. > > 1. ARIA text alternative computation: http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/complete#textalternativecomputation >
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