- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:32:34 +0200
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Roy T. Fielding, Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:16:12 -0700:
> On Jun 16, 2010, at 3:46 PM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
>> See the WAI CG Consensus document: [1] "automatic validators can detect
>> the presence/absence of @alt but in general cannot certify the
>> correctness of the text string." With @role="presentation", they can
>> test the correctness better.
>>
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/2009/06/Text-Alternatives-in-HTML5
>
> Argh, that is seriously bogus reasoning on the part of WAI CG.
Regarding this blessing of yours: I don't know if it helps, but the
last sentence ("With @role="presentation", they can
test the correctness better"), was a product of mine.
> This will only result in authoring systems adding @role="presentation"
> by default as well. What a friggin waste of bits. No good can come
> from that.
>
> @alt="" should imply @role="presentation" -- to suggest using both
> is such an incredible waste of everyone's time and money, not
> to mention Internet bandwidth.
I don't share your (and Ian's) view in this. If <img> defaults to
role="img" - as suggested in the Consesus document, then an <img> with
an empty @alt should cause an error in a validator, for lack of alt
text.
Though, I don't rule out that it would be best to save such an error
message for a specific ARIA checking tool. Meaning that a basic
validator should work as you say.
--
leif halvard silli
Received on Thursday, 17 June 2010 00:33:09 UTC