On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:16:36 -0000, Anselm Hannemann - Novolo
Designagentur <ans...@novolo.de> wrote:
Okay, I talked with some disabled web developers and Accessibility
experts today and talked about the proposal of markup in alt-text.
This seems not to be a good idea as screenreader would read the tags
which would confuse many users then.
So we would get into trouble with that approach according to current
screenreader features, etc.
This applies only to attributes. Elements can and do have element
children, while attributes can only contain plain text. We should not
redefine the alt attribute. A new element has been proposed in the list
whose contents can be defined to be an alternative representation of the
linked resource. Preferably we could just reuse elements and semantics
where appropriate.
<Object data="lolcats.gif title="An animated image macro of mine"
type="image/gif">
<p><b>Nazi Cats</b></p>
<p>Humans have been obsoleted.</p>
</Object>
<Object data="lolcat.gif" title="An animated image macro of mine"
type="image/gif">
<Img src="lolcat.jpeg" title="An image macro of mine" alt="Nazi Cats.
Humans are now obsolete.">
</Object>
As has been pointed out in the thread already, using <object> fallbacks of
different media types may result in strange behavior, and is hard to
implement correctly.
