1200257 - cannot search through accessibility attributes of image map elements

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 518123

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[adrian]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0
Build ID: 20131205075310

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to http://www.w3.org/People/mimasa/test/imagemap/
2. Search for "World".  This isn't found.



Actual results:

Didn't find anything.


Expected results:

Should find text in the tags <image alt="..." /> and <map><area alt="..." title="..."></map>. (Note that this example doesn't have the title attribute).  These should be searchable since it is an accessibility feature. In the case of the map, the find should indicate where on the image this is located

Comment 1

[adrian]

Note that "HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" document (located at http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/) doesn't say anything about being these accessibility attributes being accessible, but IMO, it is implied as it increases the accessibility to the document's content, especially when there is a lot of it.

Also, although I point out only 2 attributes for 2 different tags, it might be considered that similar searchability should be also be made available for the other tags/attributes described in the guidelines.

Comment 2

[adrian]

Possible implementation could be a popup balloon pointing at the rendered associated object, indicating what tag and attribute (or similar information) was matched against.