Re: [whatwg] Allow alt attribute with the span element

2017-10-06 Thread Michael A. Peters
On 10/06/2017 08:44 AM, Léonie Watson wrote: On 06/10/2017 11:26, Michael A. Peters wrote: Nope, no problem at all. That looks like a simple solution I did not find. Thank you. Note that you need to provide an explicit role on the span if you use aria-label to provide its accessible name.

Re: [whatwg] Allow alt attribute with the span element

2017-10-06 Thread Michael A. Peters
Nope, no problem at all. That looks like a simple solution I did not find. Thank you. On 10/06/2017 08:23 AM, Jonathan Garbee wrote: Is there a problem with using aria-label for this use case? It seems like this should do

Re: [whatwg] Allow alt attribute with the span element

2017-10-06 Thread Jonathan Garbee
Is there a problem with using aria-label for this use case? It seems like this should do exactly what you're asking for in the given scenario. On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Michael A. Peters wrote: >

[whatwg] Allow alt attribute with the span element

2017-10-06 Thread Michael A. Peters
With images, the alt attribute can and should be used to give a description of an image for users who can not see the image. With text, some glyphs are pictographs that have a meaning. For example, U+1F502 is a pictograph indicating single loop, but it is meaningless if you can not see it.