[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 25524] [Gtk] Expose the title attribute to assistive technologies

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25524





--- Comment #18 from Mario Sanchez Prada <msanchez at igalia.com>  2009-07-23 07:02:40 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #17)
> [...]
> In other words, the screen reader is perfectly capable of doing the "fall back
> to the title as the name" thing. And if you leave it up to the screen reader to
> do the fallback rather than doing it yourself, the screen reader is able to
> provide a more consistent experience, customizable to best suit whatever the
> needs of the user happen to be.

This makes a lot of sense to me as well, and your examples clarified a lot the
situation and why falling back to title for the accessible name is not a good
idea at all. Thanks for taking your time for so a good explanation :-)

Therefore, if I understood it well, what you're proposing is going ahead with
the original idea implemented in the attached patch: 

  * Always expose 'alt' in images as the accesible name
  * Always expose 'title', for every HTML item, as the accesible description

So, unless I had understood it wrong, this would mean that changing those test
cases would be required, as they expect 'alt' to be the accesible description
and not the name.

Can you confirm this before I send a mail to webkit-dev proposing this change?

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