u: > xin: >>>> I'm a bit confused by this request. Either the pictures convey some >>>> useful information, and then they need an alt text, or they don't, and >>>> then perhaps they should not be present at all, no? (But I guess I'm >>>> grossly over-simplifying :) I'll leave it to sajolida to handle this. >> >> Sometimes, images are only usefull to know what a thing looks like >> (logo, some screenshots) and have no additional information who can be >> add in a alt. >> >>> alt-tags are important for blind people, even when they just describe >>> what the image says. >>> >>> I could not review the branch from the website because the repo is >>> private or something, but I think accessibility in HTML always requires >>> alt tags, even if they are simply 'logo'. >> >> I know the importance of alt, on lot of websites alt are misused and are >> just noise to blind people. Sometimes, the alt value have to be empty. >> >> For exemple, in download page, I remove "Wait" alt because after you >> have the text "Please wait". >> Alt can be empty if the information was already in the text around. >> >> About web version of my repo, it's a known issue, you have to use git. > > From a web accessibility point of view, it's good to either have > alt="Something descriptive" or an empty alt="" - as said by xin. > > See > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/Img#Attributes. > Quoting from there: > > "Setting this attribute to an empty string (alt="") indicates that this > image is not a key part of the content, and that non-visual browsers may > omit it from rendering."
Right, xin and u are right on this one. The alt attribute is mandatory but can be empty. I also learned a lot from this article (now in /contribute/how/website): http://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/ > I did not look at the branch but it should not completely remove the > alt, just its contents when necessary. I took a very quick look at the branch and the review didn't seem straightforward (sorry!) but I'll handle it soon. _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.
