[TYPO3-content-rendering] Accessibility: File Links

[ben van 't ende]

Heyla,

Can't that be a generic like just mentioning "file: filename.odt" and when using
FAL taking the title? How do you suggest to fill the alt attribute atm then? By
hand? There needs to be some kind of default.

gRTz

ben



On 18/08/11 12:38, Patrick Broens wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> For every icon there needs to be an entry, if you want to do it properly. This
> is what I'm doing right now. The same happens with images, if you need an alt
> for every image, you need to enter them all. This is going to be the same for
> the alt of the icons/thumbnails
> 
> Patrick
> 
> On 18-8-11 12:05 , ben van 't ende wrote:
>> 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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