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Re: Alternate text for images having caption adjacent

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: May 27, 2014 1:09PM

[Jared wrote] If WCAG considers a "click here" link to be considered
programmatically associated to the element that contains it, then
certainly text immediately adjacent to an image could be considered
programmatically associated to that image, no?

I agree. Another point that is related is the difference between captions
and alternative text. Alt text may often be different from a caption.
Alt text should provide a replacement for the image while a caption is
generally used to indicate how the image is related to the content. For
example, a caption might be "Washington crossing the Delaware", but the
alt text for the picture would in most situations need to describe more
than that to be a replacement of the image for someone who could not see
it.

Jonathan