Hi Gail, At this time DSpace doesn't have a way to customize the alt-text for thumbnails of Items, or logos of Communities/Collections. Currently (at least in the XMLUI), there is alt-text for these images, but it's very generic (e.g. "Collection's logo" and "Thumbnail").
This feature to customize alt-text is not explicitly on the Roadmap anywhere, but we are striving to improve accessibility in DSpace 7. It *might* be possible to think about storing alt-text as metadata (on a Logo or Thumbnail Bitstream), which might make this easier to achieve in DSpace 7. The DSpace 7 UI will use the (new) REST API, and all metadata is available via the REST API. So, storing it as metadata might make it easy to reuse in the DSpace 7 UI. (As a side note, DSpace 7 will have a Preview release in the near future -- there will be opportunities for community members to give it a test and report accessibility issues, bugs, etc.) Currently, though, I'll also admit, DSpace 7 has very generic alt-text, as you can see on the (early) demo site at: https://dspace7-demo.atmire.com/ In any case, the best way to get a feature "on the radar" is to create a ticket for it in ticketing system at https://jira.duraspace.org/projects/DS/ While we cannot guarantee all requests will be implemented immediately (depends usually on finding an interested developer), it's also a great way to get the discussion started -- and sometimes just doing that will find a developer with an idea or interest on making it happen quickly. - Tim On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 7:27 AM Gail Steinhart <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > > > I know web accessibility is on all our minds, and while we’ve got a much > larger mountain to climb with respect to content within our DSpace > instance, I am wondering if it is on the roadmap to add a way to enter > alt-text for community and collection thumbnails, and perhaps generate > something relatively generic, automatically, for item thumbnails. Or if > there is already a way to enter thumbnail alt-text for communities and > collections – please do let me know. > > > Thanks so much, > > Gail > > > > Gail Steinhart > > Scholarly Communication Librarian > > Digital Scholarship & Preservation Services | Cornell University Library > > 229 Olin Library | 607.255.7251 > > https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2441-1651 | @gailst > <https://twitter.com/gailst> > > she/hers > > > > -- > All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the DuraSpace Code of > Conduct: https://duraspace.org/about/policies/code-of-conduct/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "DSpace Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Tim Donohue Technical Lead for DSpace & DSpaceDirect DuraSpace.org | DSpace.org | DSpaceDirect.org -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the DuraSpace Code of Conduct: https://duraspace.org/about/policies/code-of-conduct/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
