[TYPO3-content-rendering] Accessibility: File Links

[Patrick Broens]

Hi,

Reading the BITV again, I discovered this needs to be a short 
description of the icon, not the link. This means for file icons, it 
should describe it is an icon for a certain file, for thumbnails this 
could be the alt for the image as usual.

Patrick

On 18-8-11 10:54 , Patrick Broens wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The cObj File Links, or in css_styled_content tt_content.uploads, can
> produce icons for the type of file or a thumbnail when it is an image.
>
> Currently for these images there is no possibility to have an alt
> attribute, which we need according to BITV.
>
> "Wenn Abbildung und Text zwei unabhängige Links auf das selbe Ziel sind,
> dann kann das alt-Attribut dagegen nicht leer bleiben. Denn gängige
> Screenreader verlassen sich nicht darauf, daß leere alt-Attribute
> sachgerecht eingesetzt werden, sie behandeln bei Bedienelementen leere
> wie fehlende alt-Attribute und lesen den Dateinamen der Grafik / die URL
> der Zieldatei vor." [1]
>
> Now my question:
> How to construct this alt attribute? Do we have one field where you can
> enter the alt for all the icons at once, like "click here to open
> <filename>", where filename is inserted? Or do we give the opportunity
> to enter this for each single file, without inserting the filename?
>
> I would opt for the first solution, but we currently don't have that
> anywhere else in the core. The second solution is already used, for
> instance for images.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Patrick
>
> [1] http://testen.bitvtest.de/index.php?a=di&iid=1001&s=n
>