[TYPO3-content-rendering] Accessibility: File Links

[ben van 't ende]

Heyla Patrick,

Exciting work going on. I would assume that you can generate the alt
automatically now and it is no longer a question of how to do it?

gRTz

ben



On 18/08/11 11:36, Patrick Broens wrote:
> 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
>>
> 

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