Actually, my comment is not entirely relevant, as the caption is actually coming from the 'title' attribute of the link around the image. The image itself has no alt text......I don't know why it would be implemented in this way.
Brianna 2009/6/23 Brianna Laugher <[email protected]>: > 2009/6/23 Remember the dot <[email protected]>: >> Hello fellow developers, >> >> In Håkon Wium Lie's recent analysis of Wikipedia image markup ( >> http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2009/wikipedia/image/), he makes a good >> point: we include image captions both below images and again in the images' >> tooltips. > > This is actually only the case if you use the keyword 'thumb' or > 'frame'. If you just do [[file:foo.jpg|this is my caption]], then you > only get the "tooltip" (usually called "alt" text for images). > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_attribute> > > You may be interested in reading this English Wikipedia guideline, as > part of its Manual of Style: > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Alternative_text_for_images> > In short, alt text is important for accessibility. > > Also, for inline images without explicitly defined tooltips, the >> image name is used as the tooltip even though it is also shown in the URL >> when mousing over the image. Neither of these automatic tooltips are really >> useful, and they slow down page load time on image-heavy pages. > > They might not be useful for you, but they are useful for others. On > what basis do you say they slow down page load time? I would be > surprised to find that supplying or not supplying alt text made any > difference. > > Brianna > > -- > They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: > http://modernthings.org/ > -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
