[html4all] role attribute keywords for embedded media

[Leif Halvard Silli]

Robert J Burns 2008-08-22 12.57:

>> And in that regard, for what the Wiki page call 'layout or
>> spacer', how about role="space" instead, to signify images which
>> represent space, and therefore a space character as fallback?

What did you think about this? You see, I think that many authors 
would not understand what kind  of @alt a role="spacer" or 
role="layout" woud require. Many would think that they should have 
alt="". But my view is that they, for safety, should have alt=" " 
and not alt="".

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>> Richtext would also be easy to misunderstand, as many simply
>> consider any format where bold, italics etc is /possible/ as rich
>> text. I think role=text would be good enough.


> However, I'll change it just to text, because its shorter and its use  
> should be detailed in the recommendation anyway.


Agree.

>>> [1]: <http://esw.w3.org/topic/PF/XTech/HTML5/RoleAttribute#head-35490581f69f2d7a9157e4ba18f3a20a18956cac 

Leif Halvard Silli