Re: Summarizing the contentious history of re-opened PFWG-ISSUE-348: Consider renaming (now actually 'deprecating' in ARIA 1.1) role="presentation" to avoid avoid author confusion from jason@jasonjgw.net on 2014-01-29 (wai-xtech@w3.org from January 2014)

From: <jason@jasonjgw.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 20:34:08 +1100
To: wai-xtech@w3.org, "w3c-wai-pf@w3.org WAI-PFWG" <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>
Message-ID: <20140129093408.GA15241@jdc.jasonjgw.net>

Cynthia Shelly <cyns@microsoft.com> wrote:
> It can sometimes it can be difficult to teach, especially to people who
> don't really know the difference between null, empty string, none, blank and
> space.  There are many such people creating web content, though they are
> less likely to deal with aria than with alt.
> 
> Other than that issue, I've always been ok with alt="".  Does anyone recall
> why people dislike it?

There may be some who think it should be possible simply to omit the alt value
entirely, and that alt="" is an unnecessary work-around for the fact that in
HTML 4, this wasn't allowed. In HTML 5, omission is permitted (mapped to ARIA
role=image, whereas alt="" maps to role=presentation).

Received on Wednesday, 29 January 2014 09:34:35 UTC