13833 2011-08-19 08:39:34 +0000 Suggesting new feature: Accessible Image tag for Visually Impaired Hi, I design tactile graphics for visually impaired individuals. The amount of useful visual information is enormous and the majority of it is not accessible to the visually impaired. In H 2011-10-20 23:37:55 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED NEEDSINFO http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top a11y, a11y_text-alt P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ian laura.lee.carlson mike public-html-a11y public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 55470 0 contributor 2011-08-19 08:39:34 +0000 Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: Suggesting new feature: Accessible Image tag for Visually Impaired Hi, I design tactile graphics for visually impaired individuals. The amount of useful visual information is enormous and the majority of it is not accessible to the visually impaired. In Html there are two tags for alternative text which are helpful but for a vast number of images a text description is not enough – either sight or tactile impute is needed to access the graphic information. Would it be possible to create a tag for alternative images so that a blind person could download the image and emboss it out on his/her Brailler so that he/she could enjoy the information that only a graphic can convey? In order to make a picture/diagram accessible it often needs to be modified – simplified otherwise the tactile information can be too cluttered and be too difficult to decipher. Visual and tactile information are very similar. It is the eyes and fingers who deliver the information to the brain and the brain interprets. By offering such a tag I feel it would increase the understanding of accessible information dramatically and therefore the amount of such graphics since more illustrators and designers would learn about them and create them. This one html tag could greatly increase education opportunities and the quality of life for the visually impaired. Thank you, Lisa Yayla Huseby Resource Center for the Visually Impaired Oslo, Norway Posted from: 158.36.153.34 User agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; Tablet PC 2.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E) 57812 1 ian 2011-10-04 23:02:42 +0000 My recommendation would be to define a custom attribute to take a URL to emboss, as in: <img src="design.png" alt="The bolt goes through the wood beam and is fastened on the other side by a large nut." x-huseby-emboss="design-embossed.png"> ...and then have your software automatically detect the x-huseby-emboss="" attribute. If this proves to be successful, then it would make sense to add it as part of the core language. We don't want to add it prematurely because otherwise it's likely to end up abused and polluted the way longdesc="" was. How does that sound? 58603 2 ian 2011-10-20 23:37:55 +0000 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: Did Not Understand Request Change Description: no spec change Rationale: see comment 1