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[spec] Clarify purpose of alt-text

Solene Rapenne solene at perso.pw

Sun Feb 28 16:30:26 GMT 2021

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On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 10:25:25 -0600Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater at gmail.com>:

This is my main issue: screen readers *do not* skip the block. This will

need to be dealt with by the client, not the screen reader.

On 2/28/21 9:06 AM, Adnan Maolood wrote:

This would mean that should a screen reader encounter a preformatted text

block with a non-empty alt text, the alt text would be read aloud and the

preformatted block would be skipped. After all, that's what "alternative

text" is supposed to mean.

When using the screen reader, can you tell it to skip n lines?

I see something that could be done in clients as an option (not a default)

For this kind of block for example:


the client could replace it by a link entry accessing a "virtual" page containing only the text, or opening $PAGER on the content.

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> verbatim-text-#1 [Virtual page] This is something

In case of no alt text this would be seen as

=
> verbatim-text-#10 [Virtual page] No alt text

of course, the wording Virtual page is the first thing that came out but I'm pretty sure something better could be found.