Re: [niso-sts] Question regarding alternative and description text

["G. Ken Holman g.ken.holman@xxxxxxxxx" <niso-sts-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ouch!

But, then you say that it is reasonable. Hmmmmmmm.

I like the idea of an annex. Something to consider.

Thank you, Liam.

At 2023-11-13 20:50 +0000, Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Mon, 2023-11-13 at 20:00 +0000, G. Ken Holman g.ken.holman@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > My thought is that a PDF or paper rendering would (typically) hide
> > this content from the reader. As a publisher of said content, do I
> > have any obligation to render these elements visibly due to them
> > possibly being normative?
>
> PDF documents can certainly contain image descriptions, and the alt tag
> in PDF should be used for that where alt-text is available.
>
> I'd consider formatting an image-description as a secondary caption in
> PDF. After all, someone might be using a text reader on a PDF file.
>
> What you are really asking is, "can i make this document unusable by
> people I don't care about". Which isn't what i think you actually mean
> to ask :-) but is the effect.
>
> A paper rendering, however, could reasonably ignore alt-text and could
> either ignore the long descriptions or put them in an appendix.
>
> liam
>
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