[Pmwiki-users] Re: encouraging alt text was Re: markup musings, with missing #7 restored

Christian Ridderström chr
Sun May 23 07:05:25 CDT 2004


On Sun, 23 May 2004, Crisses wrote:

> it might *BE* rare -- but it shouldn't be.  I think it's of great 
> importance to make alt text for images -- whether attached or not -- 
> easy to include in the wikis.  That's an accessibility issue.  I think 
> that adding alt text to images should be so easy it's encouraged.

We might even consider an option (controlled by the admin) where the user
must add an alt-text -- AFAIK, they're required by the standard.

> As for how to do it so it's fast and intuitive:
> Quotes are disallowed in URIs?  If they are, can it be:
> Attach:w3c.jpg"This is my dog Spot."

I think a drawback with quotes is that it's less clear that it's an
alternate text. Maybe adding a '|' between would make it better, eg

	 Attach:w3c.jpg | "This is my dog Spot."

Another alternative is a separate directive for inserting an image, e.g.

	[[figure w3c.jpg This is my dog Spot.]]

> making the above [[W3C | Attach:w3c.jpg"World Wide Web Consortium"]]

Using a separate directive that would like like this:

	[[W3C | [[figure w3c.jpg World Wide Web Consortium]] ]]

/Christian

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Christian Ridderstr?m                           http://www.md.kth.se/~chr





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