Hi Stephen; Thanks very much. Very useful.
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Stephen McDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ross, > > The media library simply wraps the file system - there's no database > behind it, and subsequently nowhere to store additional meta data like you > describe. > > If you look at the gallery page type, you'll see it implements its > collection of images using the database, with a field for the file (backed > by the media library) and a field for the description, which is the > approach you're looking for. > > > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 5:15 AM, Ross Laird <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I try to be standards-compliant whenever possible. The W3 >> spec<http://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Elements/img>for images requires an alt tag >> for most images: "When an a element that >> creates a hyperlink, or a button element, has no textual content but >> contains one or more images, the alt attributes must contain text that >> together convey the purpose of the link or button." As far as I can tell, >> Mezzanine's media library does not provide a way to add alt tags to images, >> so if I want to use those images in sliders and the like, I can't provide >> alt text for them (for use in a caption, for example). I can, of course, >> add alt tags directly to images used in templates, but this is not a >> flexible solution. >> >> Or maybe I'm just missing something really obvious. Is there an alt tag >> function somewhere in Mezzanine? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Mezzanine Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > > > -- > Stephen McDonald > http://jupo.org > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mezzanine-users/unhbom1L8wk/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Ross A. Laird <http://rosslaird.com>, PhD @rosslaird <http://twitter.com/rosslaird> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
