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It would be very helpful to have a section in the "HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives" document on role="presentation" explaining how it works and advantages over alt="". This relates to: 1. The Accessibility Coordination Group's "Consensus Resolutions on Text alternatives in HTML 5" http://www.w3.org/2009/06/Text-Alternatives-in-HTML5 The WAI CG doc specifies: <img> is only valid when at least one of the following is true: * @alt is present (empty or non-empty) OR * @aria-labelledby is present (non-empty only) OR * the <img> is located within a <figure> that has a non-empty <legend> OR * @role="presentation" 2. Bug 9214: Allow role="presentation" on img http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9214 3. The email request to the a11y task force: Add rationale or exclude role="presentation", aria-labelledby & aria-labelled attributes from alt change proposal? http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2010Jun/0213.html 4. HTML Tracker ISSUE-31 http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/31 Thanks.
Bug triage sub-team notes the task force has an interest in this but does not need to prioritize its work on these. Steve and the reporters can follow the usual process on these.
DITOR'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: partially accepted Change Description: example of role="presentation" will be added to spec Rationale: agree that its use should be explained.