WAI-ARIA: add role value image as synonym for img

[ZoeBijl]

img is the only role value that is not a (mostly) complete word. I suggest we add image as a synonym.

[joanmarie]

Do we have evidence of a significant number of authors using "image" instead of "img"?

[ZoeBijl]

I don't have any numbers except for a conversation I once had where I used “image” and it didn't work. I can look it up.

In any case, the current keyword is inconsistent with all the other values like figure, itemlist, and video. These are not called fig, il, and vid. It makes sense to add image as a synonym if you ask me.

[stevefaulkner]

Of approx 160,000 pages (from webdevdata.org) use of 3 instances of
role=image were found. On same set of HTML files 546 instances of role=img
found.

Regards

SteveF
Current Standards Work @w3c
http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2015/03/current-standards-work-at-w3c/

On 15 December 2015 at 10:55, Michiel Bijl [email protected] wrote:

I don't have any numbers except for a conversation I once had where I used
“image” and it didn't work. I can look it up.

In any case, the current keyword is inconsistent with all the other values
like figure, itemlist, and video. These are not called fig, il, and vid.
It makes sense to add image as a synonym if you ask me.

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[ZoeBijl]

Thank you Steve! So it's 546 against 3?

[ZoeBijl]

If I'm the only one here that thinks that this is a good idea, we might as well close it.

Some thoughts from the a11ySlackers channel: @jnurthen agreed that image would have been better, but also said that it might not be worth the trouble to fix this now and is unsure whether it would help anyone. @garcialo disputed that not having an image could cause any issues or confusion.

I think it's safe to close this now.