On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Mark Wagner <carnildo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Fastfission
<fastfission(a)gmail.com> wrote:
1. Our images don't use the ALT tag. We use the TITLE tag, but only for
the
anchor link to the image page. What's up with
that? Aside from being
noncompliant with web standards, it also reduces our accessibility. And
is
an easy fix.
They don't? I just checked the "Catapult" article on the English
Wikipedia, and the images with captions use those captions as the
"alt" attribute.
Huh. Further investigation leads me to think that it is specifically images
in templates that don't use ALT tags, probably because the image caption is
not directly applied to the image, but rather to the template. (Still
somewhat problematic since due to infobox-fever and the like, many of our
articles have templates for their most prominent images.)
FF