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The WC3 refers to it as Alternative text: http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/accessibility
Alternative Text for Images
Alt text is the classic example. Images should include equivalent alternative text in the markup/code.
If alt text isn't provided for images, the image information is inaccessible, for example, to people who cannot see and use a screen reader that reads aloud the information on a page, including the alt text for the visual image.
When equivalent alt text is provided, the information is available to everyone to people who are blind, as well as to people who turned off images on their mobile phone to lower bandwidth charges, people in a rural area with low bandwidth who turned off images to speed download, and others. It's also available to technologies that cannot see the image, such as search engines.
Dictionary meanings for reference:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/alternate
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/alternative
Comments
Comment #1
realityloopComment #2
realityloopComment #3
YesCT CreditAttribution: YesCT commentedI applied the patch. did
grep -R -i "alternate text" core
grep -R -i "alternative text" core
looks like it got all the occurrences.
read all the lines of the patch.
just doing what it should, no more.
looks good.
Comment #4
realityloopComment #5
piyushpoddar CreditAttribution: piyushpoddar commentedI am gonna work on this ticket at Drupalcon Amsterdam 2014
Comment #6
piyushpoddar CreditAttribution: piyushpoddar commentedThe fix looks good. Checked on few pages.
I am uploading screenshots for pages that had these image fields, as required.
These screenshots are from Default Drupal 8 & Patched Drupal 8 to indicate the difference.
Comment #7
realityloopupdating tags
Thanks for the screenshots @piyushpoddar
Comment #8
alexpottCommitted 84cad37 and pushed to 8.0.x. Thanks!