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?
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