https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34750
Rodan BURY <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #15 from Rodan BURY <[email protected]> 2012-07-06 12:46:16 UTC --- I'm from the accessibility project, just like Rex Schneider and Graham87. This is an improvement indeed. However, please never use file name in the alt text. I mean never. Several file name might be descriptive, but in a great many cases they are not. We cannot rely on it. In a screen reader, "File:ECARmulticolor4.tnl.jpg" would be read aloud "ECARmulticolorfour dot tnl dot jpg". It is useless and confusing. The responsibility to write captions and meaningful alt text falls on the editors, the software cannot do it for them. On the other hand, the the alt text cannot be empty when the image is part of a link. Thus, if there is no alt text and no caption, stick to the default alt text "view the media page" only. It will do the job well enough. Thanks for your accessibility improvement Kai Nissen. Thanks Derk-Jan Hartman for asking our opinions on the matter. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
