- From: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 18:01:32 +0000
- To: "daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com" <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On 11/5/14, 8:59 AM, "Daniel Glazman" <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com> wrote: >I have a lot of concerns about this 'alt' property for pseudo-elements >::before and ::after. > >1. nothing prevents from using it with a strictly textual 'content' > property. Are we absolutely sure we want to allow that??? Yes, as I understand it. That’s the point of the alt:""; example. > >2. if we want to make generated content accessible, then we need to > make all of it accessible correctly; since the content property > can specify MULTIPLE IMAGES, we need to make each of them have its > own alt text. The current proposal does not allow that. Do you have an example of multiple *fallback* images where you’d want the alt text to differ depending on which image loaded? > >3. am I the only one finding this ugly? What's the next step? A 'role' > property? And then all the html attributes we miss on generated > content? I think we should generally look in to providing better support for pseudo-elements. Their contents should be selectable and searchable. There should be OM. Alt text seems reasonable. I don’t see this as a slippery slope so much as backfilling functionality that should have been present from the start. Thanks, Alan
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