[Xerte-dev] Re: Tooltips / Alt text (title vs. alt attributes)

[Tom Reijnders]

I did that, and indeed in response to issue #104.

Please Alistair, any comments on what Fay mentions? It does make sense 
to me. And I don't like tool tips anyway.

I must say, a lot of people were complaining that they didn't work. 
That's another reason I made the change.

Fay Cross schreef op 20-3-2015 om 9:51:
>
> I’ve noticed that a change has been made to lots of page types so that 
> alt attributes on images are now title attributes. This seems to be in 
> response to a bug on GitHub 
> (https://github.com/thexerteproject/xerteonlinetoolkits/issues/104) 
> where tooltips were said to not work.
>
> I’m not sure that changing all alt to title really solves the problem 
> and really it’s a wording problem on the editor rather than a problem 
> to be fixed in the LOs. I thought that the main use of tooltip fields 
> in the editor was to add a description of the image to screen readers. 
> Previously these descriptions added as alt attributes did mean that a 
> tooltip appeared when the image was hovered over but this no longer 
> seems to happen in most browsers. Using the title attribute instead 
> does force a tooltip to appear but I don’t think it’s ideal for screen 
> readers (http://www.w3.org/TR/html/dom.html#the-title-attribute)
>
> What does everyone think about this? Should the wording in the editor 
> be changed from ‘Tooltip’ to ‘Description’ or ‘Alt text’ or do you 
> think that it’s more important for it to stay as tooltip and keep the 
> hover functionality even if this might be more fiddly for users of 
> screen readers?
>
> Fay
>
>
> This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee
> and may contain confidential information. If you have received this
> message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it.
>
> Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this
> message or in any attachment.  Any views or opinions expressed by the
> author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the
> University of Nottingham.
>
> This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an
> attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your
> computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email
> communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as
> permitted by UK legislation.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Xerte-dev mailing list
> Xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte-dev

-- 
--

Tom Reijnders
TOR Informatica
Chopinlaan 27
5242HM Rosmalen
Tel: 073 5226191
Fax: 073 5226196

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/pipermail/xerte-dev/attachments/20150320/bf22a921/attachment.html>