On Thursday, March 3, 2011, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > Aaron J. Seigo wrote on 03/03/11 06:15: > > On Tuesday, March 1, 2011, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > >... > > > >> But in general, while all interactive graphic-only > >> elements should have accessible labels, not all of them need tooltips. > > > > example? > > Icon-only labels at opposite ends of a slider: for example, muted at one > end and maximum-volume at the other, or low-zoom at one end and > high-zoom at the other. The icons should have accessible labels, but to > a sighted user they are obvious enough that tooltips would be silly. (If > they weren't obvious enough, the correct fix would be to make the labels > plain text, as slider labels often are, not to give them tooltips.)
i was hoping for examples relevant to the topic at hand, namely status notifiers / app indicators. :) > >> In a survey by Opera Software of 3,219,487 Web pages that used the > >> <img> element, 2,520,939 of them (78%) used alt=, while 367,132 (11%) > >> used title=. > >> <http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/mama-images-elements-and-formats/#im > >> g> > >> > >> As far as I know, there are no public statistics on how often <img> > >> elements have distinct alt= and title= values. But we can conclude, at > >> least, that Web authors care enough about accessibility to provide > >> accessible equivalents most of the time. > > > > after years of getting it pounded into their heads and with the added > > bonus that this text is often used for things like tooltips ... they > > still fail 11% of the time. > > > >... > > That is because the <img> "API" was apparently designed without any > thought for accessibility. true ... but: > If the syntax had been <img src="...">alternate</img>, it would have > been much more obvious that an alternate was expected and what it was > for. Sure, some people would still have routinely written > <img src="..."></img>. But fewer people would have, because it would > have been more obvious that that was missing something than that > <img src="..."> is missing something. <img src="http://idontcare.com/haha.png" /> :) most API is abusable, and app developers will do just that. a truly crappy part of reality. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks
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