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

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realityloop’s picture

Component: field system » image system
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Status: Active » Needs review
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YesCT’s picture

Status: Needs review » Reviewed & tested by the community

I 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.

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piyushpoddar’s picture

I am gonna work on this ticket at Drupalcon Amsterdam 2014

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realityloop’s picture

Issue tags: -Novice, -Needs screenshots

updating tags
Thanks for the screenshots @piyushpoddar

alexpott’s picture

Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Fixed

Committed 84cad37 and pushed to 8.0.x. Thanks!

  • alexpott committed 84cad37 on 8.0.x
    Issue #2346101 by realityloop: Fixed Alternate text should be called...

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.