Talking Interfaces Auditory Interfaces, Accessibility & Communicating Critical Information

In the brief history of the World Wide Web, we have seen a number of technologies and ideas come and go.  The non-visual, or self-voicing, Web browser is one technology that emerged in 1995-1996 and sought to solve the challenges that people with visual impairments were facing when trying to access the Web. pwWebspeak was [...]

The section on the alt attribute in the current HTML5 working draft that begins with “What an img element represents depends on the src attribute and the alt attribute” really seems to miss the point.  This is the semantic Web era, correct?  Isn’t the conditional logic of the current draft really trying to affix a [...]