RE: H86: Providing text alternatives for ASCII art, emoticons, and leetspeak

Ø Agree that we could drop the abbr.
WCAG indicates leetspeak as non-text content.
non-text content
any content that is not a sequence of characters that can be programmatically determined<http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/#programmaticallydetermineddef> or where the sequence is not expressing something in human language<http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/#human-langdef> Note: This includes ASCII Art<http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/#asciiartdef> (which is a pattern of characters), emoticons, leetspeak (which uses character substitution), and images representing text
So, I’d want to make sure we have a replacement example/technique available if we plan to remove it.
Jonathan
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From: David MacDonald [mailto:david100@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2015 6:29 PM
To: Steve Faulkner
Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Subject: Re: H86: Providing text alternatives for ASCII art, emoticons, and leetspeak
Agree that we could drop the abbr. It's kind of a hack, and JAWS has abbr support turned off by default, so the abbr may not even speak.
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On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com<mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com>> wrote:
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H86.html

suggest adding ARIA-fied example (from html5 spec)
<figure role="img" aria-labelledby="fish-caption"
 <pre>
 o .'`/
 ' / (
 O .-'` ` `'-._ .')
 _/ (o) '. .' /
 ) ))) >< <
 `\ |_\ _.' '. \
 '-._ _ .-' '.)
 jgs `\__\
 </pre>
 <figcaption id="fish-caption">
 <cite>Joan G. Stark, "fish"</cite>.
 October 1997. ASCII on electrons. ×ばつ8.
 </figcaption>
 </figure>
Also question the use of <abbr> in this technique:
<abbr title="Austin Rocks">Au5t1N r0xx0rz</abbr>
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SteveF
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