- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 00:12:37 +0200
- To: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
- Cc: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
James Craig, Tue, 10 May 2011 11:58:43 -0700: Your message was delayed - didn't receive it before now. You have some questions relating to the bug: > 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"> Yes, James, this is correct. > 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"> This is already clear from HTML5, I believe. >>> * the host language labeling mechanism (in this case @alt) equaled >>> an empty string, *AND* the ARIA text alternative computation [1] >>> equaled an empty string. Ah, yes, that is a certainly a very good proposal. I will put that in the bug, shortly. > 1. ARIA text alternative computation: > http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/complete#textalternativecomputation -- Leif H Silli
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