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Re: Question about image in the alt attribute

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Aug 2, 2014 8:32PM

> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/embedded-content.html#examples-of-scenarios-where-users-benefit-from-text-alternatives-for-images

Steve et al, I don't think this list completely describes the scenario that we are concerned about. What I would like to see added is an example where a person has low vision or a cognitive disability and desires to have the alternative text of the image displayed alongside with the image AND they are NOT using text-to-speech.

While the specification allows for the alternative text to be display in this method it is not required to be a user option. It would be good to document this in the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines or other appropriate document and encourage browsers to offer this.

In the not so recent past browser manufacturers were actually criticized and call non-conformant for showing alt text along the image in a tooltip. IE use of this was actually cited as one reason of why it was not conformant to standards and should not be used. This was very unfortunate.

Jonathan