To support Stefan, I have had conversations with web developers who wanted
to just omit alt="", since it was equivalent to having no alt attribute.
And from a spec perspective, they have a point.
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Schnabel, Stefan
<stefan.schnabel@sap.com>wrote:
> >> role=""
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> Oh please. Please. Please, do NOT repeat the alt="" workaround again...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Craig [mailto:jcraig@apple.com]
> Sent: Donnerstag, 30. Januar 2014 21:52
> To: Bryan Garaventa
> Cc: Richard Schwerdtfeger; Cynthia Shelly; Jason White; Gunderson, Jon R;
> T.V Raman; w3c-wai-pf@w3.org WAI-PFWG; wai-xtech@w3.org
> Subject: Re: PFWG-ISSUE-348: Consider renaming (now actually 'deprecating'
> in ARIA 1.1) role="presentation" to avoid avoid author confusion
>
> On Jan 30, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Bryan Garaventa <
> bryan.garaventa@whatsock.com> wrote:
>
> > So would "" be a direct mirror of the role presentation? Meaning that it
> does exactly the same thing?
>
> Just to clarify. This is an item for discussion. Nothing is decided...
> But yes, that was my intention. role="" would be a synonym for
> role="presentation"
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