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Re: Conforming alternate version

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Date: Jan 13, 2022 1:57AM


Thank you Mark and Glen for your answer!

Zsolt

2022. 01. 12. 16:44 keltezéssel, glen walker írta:
> The "Conforming Alternate Version" is spelled out pretty well at the link
> you mentioned:
>
> https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#dfn-conforming-alternate-version
>
> In this case, it looks like non-conforming version (the main website?) has
> a link to the conforming version via the image link (the first link on the
> page) that looks like a yellow circle with three embedded black circles.
> The image has appropriate alt text leading the user to the "barrier free"
> version.
>
> However, both the link and the image are tab stops. The link does not have
> a focus indicator but the image does, so technically the link would fail
> the "accessibility-supported mechanism" requirement in #4.1 because it
> doesn't have a focus indicator. But that's easy to fix. There's no need
> to have tabindex=0 on the image since it's contained in the link and if the
> focus indicator is fixed, it would satisfy a "conforming alternate version"
> (assuming the website it's linked to is actually conforming and provides
> all the same information as the original site and is kept up to date).
>
> Personally, I think it's a lot more work to maintain two websites and make
> sure they stay in sync when changes are made rather than the work required
> to make the original website conformant.
> > > > --
Zsolt Edelényi
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