Web Development
Web Developer Guidelines
Visual Design Recommendations

Checkpoint 1.2 - XML/XSLT

Provide explicit, multiple types of relationships between alternatives to allow users to select alternatives which are useful to them

XML Accessibility Guidelines

Guideline 1. Ensure that authors can associate multiple media objects as alternatives

Being able to create and select multiple types of relationships between items and not just a text to image relationship give users more flexibility to select content appropriate for their needs.

Requirement

Consider extending an item by allowing multiple relationships to other alternative items

Techniques


<mediaExample>
  <Obj xlink:role="http://example.au/equivalenceTypes/image"
  xlink:href="imageVersion" />
  <Obj xlink:role="http://example.au/equivalenceTypes/shortText"
  xlink:href="shortText" />
  <Obj xlink:role="http://example.au/equivalenceTypes/movie"
  xlink:href="movie" />
</mediaExample>

Information Source

The original source of this information is located on the W3C web site  (www.w3.org/TR/xag#cp1_2)

 

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