WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: Alt text

for

From: karthik k
Date: Feb 8, 2017 11:28PM

thanks everyone for your valuable feedbacks. Yes, the field has to be
made mandatory, have decided to discuss the same with the developer.

On 2/9/17, Rakesh P < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Thats a great thought Karthik. Even the caption field of facebook allows
> doing that but who cares unless it is a mandatory field. If your website is
> very clear in terms of making the content accessible, I recommend you to
> make it as a required field. Not filling that field will deny uploading the
> image. An instruction if possible to the field that says the text should
> describe the image will make the pictures having appropriate alternate
> text.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Narendra Vg < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Karthick,
>> I am assuming there should be a edit box to write about the post.
>> People can type the image description at end of the post. For example,
>> after your post, 'image description all the team having dinner
>> together-
>> HTH
>> Narendra VG
>>
>>
>> On 2/9/17, karthik k < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> > Dear experts,
>> > After a lot of discussion, we have decided to use manual alt text. We
>> > have a website which is similar to facebook but restricted to
>> > particular community where thousands of pictures are uploaded
>> > everyday. Does it work if we provide some edit field where the
>> > particular user writes the description of photo before uploading it?
>> > Please suggest.
>> > >> > >> > >> > >> >
>> >> >> >> >>
> > > > >


--
Thanking you,
regards
Karthik K.
Phone no 9060989650