The field mapped to the pager_text could be used as ALT text for the pager image on themes which do not have pager text shown (e.g. vsd-upright-60p)

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ppblaauw commented
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To use the alt text for an image you can use the ALT text of the image_field.

You can also rewrite the imagefield output and use any other field of the view to produce an ALT text.

Another option is to use other fields for the ALT Text of an image is adding a preprocess function and create the pager_image variable there like is done in version 1 of the views_slideshow_ddblock module.

Hope this helps you further, please let me know.

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SweeneyTodd commented
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This was just a suggestion on how I thought the default behaviour of the Slideshow ddb theme could be improved without the user having to add custom coding. This could be used to override the ALT text used for the image upload. I thought of this functionality as a "nice to have" rather than a bug or functionality that I needed. If you don't think this is worth doing, then Close the issue.

Unfortunately, I have a problem with where I am hosting this site at present and ImageField produces upload errors (unable to verify file type) so I have to use FileField to upload files. I will move the site to another host if it goes live.

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ppblaauw commented
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Ok, When you say: "The field mapped to the pager_text could be used as ALT text for the pager image on themes which do not have pager text shown (e.g. vsd-upright-60p)"

How could this be accomplished?

Do you have another way as I suggested in post #1?

In my opinion it's not practical to make something the default ALT text of an image used in the slideshow.
Users need to decide what they want to use for the ALT text of an image used in the slideshow.
Making a pager-text field as default for the image ALT text is not possible, because users will not always have a pager-text field.