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Ray,
In 2004, Larry Rowland, who is a member of the DocBook
TC,
did an investigation of accessibility that led to
changes
that were pulled into DocBook 5.0 (and some maybe into
4.x).
In particular, in DocBook 5.0, alt is allowed pretty
much
anywhere, including in <itemizedlist> and
<listitem>.
That said, I'm not sure there's a specific write up
on
this topic. Your best bet is probably to start with
a
search on the email archives. Drop the following
into
google:
"site:http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives docbook
accessibility"
The first hit I got was Larry's email that
summarizes his
investigation, along with some follow
up. The minutes to
the DocBook TC meetings for the next few
months after that
(August 2004) provide some useful
information, too.
Finally, I know that the folks working on stylesheets
have
done quite a bit to make the transforms generate
accessible
content; you may want to check out your site using some
of
the tools available to see how close you already are.
W3C
Hope that helps,
Dick Hamilton
Any pubs on making Docbook HTML
transformations 508 compliant?
I’m curious regarding issues such
as <alt> tags for bulleted lists rendered as asterisks in a text browser
and such.
Advice
please.
Ray
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