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Bug 22852 - Average rainfall description consider reference in the ALT text to the full description
Summary: Average rainfall description consider reference in the ALT text to the full d...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 editorial
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: steve faulkner
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Keywords: a11y
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Reported: 2013-08-01 16:07 UTC by dmacdona
Modified: 2016-04-14 16:00 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description dmacdona 2013-08-01 16:07:09 UTC 
<img src="rainchart.gif" alt="Average rainfall in millimetres by Country and Season.">
  <table>
  <caption>Rainfall in millimetres by Country and Season.</caption>
  <tr><td><th scope="col">UK <th scope="col">Japan<th scope="col">Australia</tr>


Suggest the ALT be something like:
alt="Average rainfall in millimetres by Country and Season. Full description in table below."


Also, we use British spelling here in Canada also, but I believe the W3C has adopted American spelling "millimeters", but its an example so maybe it doesn't matter...
Comment 1 dmacdona 2013-08-01 16:21:28 UTC 
Same here 4.8.1.1.7 Images that enhance the themes or subject matter of the page content

 <img src="shalott.jpeg" alt="Painting of a  young woman with long hair, sitting in a wooden boat. ">
  <p><a href="#des">Description of the painting</a>.</p>



alt="Painting of a  young woman with long hair, sitting in a wooden boat. Full description below."


Also note the orphan space before the closing " in the ALT quotation.
Comment 2 steve faulkner 2015-06-12 14:41:42 UTC 
Waiting for the HTML spec to be editable again...
Comment 3 Charles McCathieNevile 2016-04-14 14:32:54 UTC 
Steve, ping?