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Re: Alternate text for images having caption adjacent

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: May 27, 2014 12:12PM


[Rakesh wrote] Feel free to comment as reply to this email or to
understand the context have a look and comment at blog

The WCAG defines text alternatives as

Text that is programmatically associated with non-text content or
referred to from text that is programmatically associated with non-text
content. Programmatically associated text is text whose location
can be programmatically determined from the non-text content.
Example: An image of a chart is described in text in the paragraph
after the chart. The short text alternative for the chart indicates
that a description follows.
(http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/text-equiv-all.html)

Thus, according to this definition the in page equivalent must be
associated by a short description in the alt text of the image letting the
user know where the alternative is located. Basically there needs to be
an programmatic or textual association between the alternative and the
image.

Jonathan