Re: A presentational img?

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

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Leif H Silli

Received on Tuesday, 10 May 2011 22:13:10 UTC