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Bug 8617 - Purpose of the icon attribute
Summary: Purpose of the icon attribute
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/dom.html#e...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: a11y
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2010-01-04 10:16 UTC by Gez Lemon
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:49 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description Gez Lemon 2010-01-04 10:16:16 UTC 
What is the purpose of the icon attribute? If it's exposed to the user, there should be a means of exposing this information as a text equivalent for assistive technology users.
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-01-11 11:26:32 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: The label="" attribute is the text equivalent. Actually, the label="" attribute gives the canonical label for the element, the icon="" attribute is just an additional optional graphical icon alternative.
Comment 2 Michael Cooper 2010-02-11 17:26:31 UTC 
Per the proposal at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2010Jan/0245.html, the HTML A11Y TF does not plan to formally work on this issue at this time. This does not mean the TF has no interest in it, but does not have immediate plans to work on it. The TF may review the issue in the future.