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Re: Figures and Captions and Alt-text oh my...

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From: glen walker
Date: May 9, 2018 10:50AM

Sounds like (no pun intended) VoiceOver and JAWS both ignore the
aria-describedby attribute on an image. I'd love to hear if anyone has a
technical explanation for this. The accessible name and accessible
description computation seems pretty clear to me that it should be honored.

https://www.w3.org/TR/accname-1.1/#step2

So, even though I think aria-describedby is a good way to link your
description to the image, instead of a separate piece of text, I'm not sure
you should use that solution since some users won't hear it.

Glen

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 8:13 AM, Sandy Feldman < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> hi Glen,
>
> It is a shame the artist doesn't want the hidden descriptions available to
> people who can see the paintings, but there you go.
>
> http://ineeda.coffee/arnie/paintings.html
>
> I have added aria-describedby="desc" to the images. Sounds exactly the
> same to me in Voice Over, but I am far from an expert user. It's nice to
> have some kind of connection, though. It's got to be better than "this
> comes next"!
>
> thank you for your input,
> Sandy
>
>