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Text Alternatives
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Text Alternatives
Mechanisms to define text alternatives images and other types of objects
Minutes: Text Alternatives Subgroup
- 25 September 2012
- 18 September 2012
- 11 September 2012 Work session - No Minutes
- 4 September 2012
- 28 August 2012 No Minutes
- 21 August 2012
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- 31 July 2012
- 24 July 2012 No Meeting
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- 26 June 2012 No Minutes
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- 12 June 2012: No Minutes
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- 14 February 2012
- 07 February 2012
- 31 January 2012
- 24 January 2012
- 17 January 2012, 17 January 2012 IRC Log
- 10 January 2012
- 3 January 2012 No meeting
- 27 December 2011 No meeting
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- 25 October 2011
- 18 October 2011 Meeting Canceled
- 11 October 2011
- 4 October 2011
- 26 September 2011
- 19 September 2011 Meeting Canceled
- 12 September 2011
- 5 September 2011 No text alternative meeting
- 29 August 2011 No text alternative meeting
- 22 August 2011
- 15 August 2011
- 8 August 2011 No text alternative meeting
- 1 August 2011 No text alternative meeting
- 25 July 2011 Meeting Canceled
- 18 July 2011
- 11 July 2011
- 4 July 2011 No meeting
- 27 June 2011
- 20 June 2011
- 13 June 2011
- 6 June 2011
- 30 May 2011 Meeting Canceled
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- 25 April 2011
- 18 April 2011
HTML WG Text Alternative Issues
- ISSUE-30 longdesc: Should HTML 5 include a longdesc attribute for images?
- ISSUE-31 missing-alt: What to do when a reasonable text equivalent is unknown/unavailable?
- ISSUE-66 Image analysis heuristics.
- ISSUE-80 title-alternative: Document conformance and device dependent display of title attribute content.
Summary of Text Alternatives Bugs
- Text alternative Bugs tagged allytf
- Text alternative bugs tagged ally. These include new, reopened, and won't fix text alternative bugs.
Change Proposals
Text Alternative Surveys
Text Alternatives Formal Objections
- ISSUE-31 It is not acceptable that the HTML5 specification goes to last call with normative requirements that directly contradict WCAG 2.0 - Steve Faulkner, April 18, 2011.
- ISSUE-31 formal objection to the decision in regards to allowing title as conforming when alt is omitted. - Steve Faulkner, April 18, 2011.
- ISSUE-142 poster-alt - John Foliot, March 29, 2011.
- Advance HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives to Last Call - Janina Sajka, May 23, 2011.
Formal Decisions
For accessibility task force recommendations to the HTML Working Group please consult Formal Decisions
HTML5 Spec Text
- HTML5 Spec "The img element" Editor: Ian Hickson.
HTML5 Techniques Doc
- HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives, W3C version Editor: Steve Faulkner.
- HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives, TPG version Editor: Steve Faulkner.
HTML5 Techniques Doc Bugs
HTML5 Techniques Doc History
The techniques doc stems from HTML Action 54
It was reported as a bug February 3, 2010:
Change proposal was written December 9, 2009:
Resources
- Short Text Alternatives on img - a detailed history of the issue from 2007 to date. It includes:
- Longdesc Retention
- WAI CG Consensus Resolutions on Text alternatives in HTML 5.
- Accessibility Change Proposal Status Table