21402 2013-03-26 18:08:19 +0000 Alt text techniques should address the use (and misuse) of Gaiji 2014-05-21 13:07:16 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG CR alt techniques [please use LC1 instead] unspecified PC All RESOLVED FIXED a11y, a11y_text-alt P2 normal --- 1 jcraig faulkner.steve hans.hillen jcraig mike public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 85023 0 jcraig 2013-03-26 18:08:19 +0000 Gaiji is a Japanese word meaning foreign character or foreign word. It was originally used to mean characters or sounds (e.g. "London") that do not have a native kanji representation. It is commonly overused, abused, or misused in Japanese EPUB documents, and I think it should be addressed in the Alt Techniques document. My suggested text is: """ 1. When gaiji is used as a "hack" to display a character that is adequately represented by a real unicode character, the recommended practice is to remove the gaiji image and just use the unicode character. 2. When gaiji is used to display a character that is not available in a particular font, the alternative text should be the unicode character. 3. When gaiji is used to represent a graphical image similar to those displaying emoji, use a short description of the image's content (e.g. "thumbs up", "sunrise", or "smiling woman"). 4. When gaiji is used to represent a new or made-up character that has no unicode representation, use the phonetic hiragana or katakana string to represent the pronunciation of the new or made-up character. """ 85062 1 jcraig 2013-03-27 18:22:14 +0000 2 and 4 should probably also use the ARIA 1.1 "text" role, but there's no reference link for ARIA 1.1 yet, so that part could wait until it's available. 106555 2 faulkner.steve 2014-05-21 13:07:16 +0000 added notes on use of gaaji