This is an archived snapshot of W3C's public bugzilla bug tracker, decommissioned in April 2019. Please see the home page for more details.

Bug 27862 - reorganize for standalone note
Summary: reorganize for standalone note
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 alt techniques (editor: Steven Faulkner) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Macintosh Windows 3.1
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Shane McCarron
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords: a11ytf, a11y_text-alt
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2015-01-20 03:33 UTC by Liam R E Quin
Modified: 2016-02-23 11:40 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

See Also:


Attachments

Description Liam R E Quin 2015-01-20 03:33:12 UTC
The alt document is to be published as a WG note, so it needs the full Note organization including abstract, status, introduction, references etc.

E.g. for abstract,
[[
Abstract

This document contains best practice guidance for authors of HTML [HTML5] documents on providing text alternatives for images.
]]

E.g. for intro,
[[
Introduction

The alt
attribute is markup defined by the HTML [HTML5] specification that can be placed on
any HTML _img_ image element [and elsewhere? - Liam] to provide a simple textual 
fallback for that case that the image is not displayed.  Appropriate use of
the _alt_ attribute is an important part of creating Web pages that are
fully accessible, not only to people who are blind but also to people in
situations where an image cannot be downloaded or displayed.  The contents of
alt attributes may also be available to Web search engines and to in-page
user agent searches.

This document describes how to use the _alt_ attribute in HTML [HTML5].

]]
Comment 1 Shane McCarron 2015-01-29 17:29:41 UTC
Moved into LC1 component as per discussion in HTML A11Y Task Force on 29 January 2015
Comment 2 Shane McCarron 2015-01-29 19:31:14 UTC
Added sections and some candidate text.  Needs review.
Comment 3 Shane McCarron 2015-01-30 16:07:25 UTC
Note that I also plan to reorganize slightly to have the high level requirements / guidelines in a section, and the examples in a separate section.  It seems organizationally cleaner.
Comment 4 Charles McCathieNevile 2016-02-23 11:40:40 UTC
This has been done. In any event we expect proposals for HTML spec.