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in section http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/tabular-data.html#the-th-element <img alt="" height="256" src="http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/images/table-scope-diagram.png" width="459"> is informative: 1. need to ascertain whether adjacent text is adequate alternative 2. add an alt text refer to: http://www.davidmacd.com/WCAG/WAI/buggy.html
>refer to: http://www.davidmacd.com/WCAG/WAI/buggy.html Would it be possible to update this reference with a pointer back to this bug and/or to create anchors in the buggy.html document to provide an even better reference?
(In reply to comment #1) > >refer to: http://www.davidmacd.com/WCAG/WAI/buggy.html > > Would it be possible to update this reference with a pointer back to this > bug and/or to create anchors in the buggy.html document to provide an even > better reference? will do once I have added the rest of the bugs
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the Editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the Tracker Issue; or you may create a Tracker Issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: accepted Change Description: rewrote text explanation of code example and added alt text. https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/e40755a5210ebba2e7eda6d7eea50b61512a4a90 Rationale: the image contains info. A full description of the information it conveys is available in text above the image, so the image alt is a brief description. Note: the rewrite of the full text description is a first draft, appreciate a11y taskforce review refer to http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2013Apr/0000.html
gez suggested " before describing scope="rowgroup", mention that in this example, the two tbody elements define the span of the row group."
(In reply to comment #3) > EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are > satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. > If > you have additional information and would like the Editor to reconsider, > please > reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML > Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest > title and text for the Tracker Issue; or you may create a Tracker Issue > yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: > > http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html > > Status: accepted > Change Description: rewrote text explanation of code example and added alt > text. > https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/e40755a5210ebba2e7eda6d7eea50b61512a4a90 > Rationale: the image contains info. A full description of the information it > conveys is available in text above the image, so the image alt is a brief > description. > > Note: the rewrite of the full text description is a first draft, appreciate > a11y taskforce review refer to > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2013Apr/0000.html note the correct link to the decision policy is http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy-v3.html
have made further updates after feedback https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/b9bde609babdd29841ef520b00412ac14d836f9e