https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148941
Bug ID: 148941
Summary: Make label of the field for an image's text
alternative consistent
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Steps to reproduced the issue
1. Insert an image into a Writer document.
3. Right-click on the image and choose "Properties" from the context menu; go
to the Options tab: below the Name field, there is a field named "Alternative
(Text only)". Fill in a string such as "test-title" and exit the dialog.
4. While the image is still selected, go to the Format menu and choose
"Description". The string "test-title" now appears in a field named "Title".
The labels are inconsistent with each other.
A. "Title" is based on the fact that the field creates the content of the
svg:title element in content.xml. This corresponds to the img element's alt
attribute in HTML (see Appendix D in part 3 of the ODF 1.3 spec).
B. The label "Alternative (Text only)" seems to result from an attempt to
better describe the field's purpose, but I suspect the string "Text
alternative" (used in standards such as WCAG 2.1:
https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#text-alternatives ) was misunderstood by someone
who renamed the label. (In the French UI, we see the same issue: "Alternative
(text seul)"; the German UI at least makes sense "Alternativtext".)
We need to make this consistent and replace both "Title" and "Alternative (Text
only)" with a label that better conveys the field's purpose, i.e. providing a
text alternative that serves the same purpose or conveys the same information
as the image.
(I could not find such inconsistency for drawing objects, which have no context
menu entry named "Properties", nor in Impress, where "Description" in an
image's context menu opens a dialog wit just the fields "Title" and
"Description". However, in these cases also, "Title" should be replaced with a
better label.)
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