Problem/Motivation

Presently we don't have any information to help authors make good alt text.

There are great resources like
- https://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/
- https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/decision-tree/
- https://axesslab.com/alt-texts/
- https://www.rnib.org.uk/accessibility-guidelines-alt-text-what-you-need-...

And we definitely don't need something this long, but it would be useful to give users something more they can go with.

Steps to reproduce

So it looks like this now:

screenshot of image upload

Proposed resolution

And I'd like it to look like

screenshot of image upload with a question mark

On selecting the question mark (or perhaps a tab) then a dialog would open up with a paragraph or two of reminders about how to write good alt text.

Remaining tasks

- Determine if there is a better way to expose help
- Create a mockup
- Write the code & tests
- Test the code for accessibility

User interface changes

See screenshots above.

API changes

None.

Data model changes

None.

Release notes snippet

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Image Field - D9 proposed.png39.89 KBmgifford
Image Field - D9.png39.25 KBmgifford

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Issue tags: +we4authors

The We4Authors Cluster project is looking at improving authoring tools for a number of popular CMS like Drupal. This is one of the ideas that they are building on here:

https://accessibilitycluster.com/authoringTool/

Version: 9.1.x-dev » 9.2.x-dev

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Adding example from the We4Authors Cluster review of ATAG Part B and ways to better support authors https://accessibilitycluster.com/main-results/text-alternative-feature-%...

Version: 9.3.x-dev » 9.4.x-dev

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Drupal 9.5.0-beta2 and Drupal 10.0.0-beta2 were released on September 29, 2022, which means new developments and disruptive changes should now be targeted for the 10.1.x-dev branch. For more information see the Drupal core minor version schedule and the Allowed changes during the Drupal core release cycle.

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Drupal core is moving towards using a “main” branch. As an interim step, a new 11.x branch has been opened, as Drupal.org infrastructure cannot currently fully support a branch named main. New developments and disruptive changes should now be targeted for the 11.x branch, which currently accepts only minor-version allowed changes. For more information, see the Drupal core minor version schedule and the Allowed changes during the Drupal core release cycle.

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Version: 11.x-dev » main

Drupal core is now using the main branch as the primary development branch. New developments and disruptive changes should now be targeted to the main branch.

Read more in the announcement.

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Component: field system » image.module

Image fields are in the image module. Moving components.

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the links in #2 and #5 lead into 404 pages.

and one question what would be the proposed resolution exactly? the sole apparent difference between the two images is the question mark with a circle. should the question mark provide a popup?

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Issue tags: +wcag111