- From: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:08:32 +1100
- To: wai-xtech@w3.org, w3c-wai-pf@w3.org
Suzanne Taylor <suzanne.taylor@pearson.com> wrote: > Thx. It’s possible, then, that there should be two roles, one for removing > semantics, one for marking images (and maybe other items) as > decorative/atmospheric. The dual purpose is really awkward to explain. When this was discussed during the development of WCAG, the predominant opinion was that decorative images should have alt="" so they would be ignored by assistive technologies. If they were truly decorative, there could be no useful information conveyed, hence no value in providing a text alternative. Now that we have ARIA, it would indeed be possible to add a text alternative and to mark the images as decorative. The interesting question is whether this is useful enough to justify implementation. How much benefit would be offered to users, and would they be much interested in reading the text alternatives of images which would currently be represented as alt="" for the reasons described above?
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