Opened 15 months ago
Last modified 4 months ago
#48939 new defect (bug)
Consider iterating text on media upload for alt text
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Milestone: | Awaiting Review | Priority: | normal |
Severity: | normal | Version: | |
Component: | Media | Keywords: | needs-design-feedback |
Focuses: | accessibility | Cc: |
Change History (8)
This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #design by estelaris. View the logs.
5 months ago
This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #accessibility by afercia. View the logs.
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Merging @garrett-eclipse description from a duplicate ticket #51616:
On Media Modals the Alt Text has a description containing a link 'Describe the purpose of the image.' that's a little misleading to new users. It feels less a description and information and more an action in that users click it thinking that's how one would describe the image but instead find it's just information.
Could a little (i) icon be added to denote it as informational. Or could we adjust the language;
_Alt Text_ describes the image purpose.
*Where just the 'Alt Text' part is links.
This i feel would take the link off the action word which is what currently makes the link feel like an action and not just extra information.
Love the concept of the feature just think we can remove the ambiguity of the link purpose.
#8
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4 months ago
Linking to the related issue and PR on the Gutenberg repo:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/19068
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/26520
The key concepts the accessibility team want to communicate with this text and that were discussed on #41612 and related conversations on Slack are the the following 3 ones:
- The alt text describes the purpose of the image, it's not the image description. The image purpose can be very different from the image content depending on usage and context.
- The link points to a resource that explains this concept in detail: the W3C "alt decision tree"
- In most of the cases, images are purely decorative and don't need an alt text. The part "Leave empty if the image is purely decorative" is fundamental to communicate this concept to users as they tend to think they have to provide an alt text in all cases (which is wrong)
Improvements to the current text are welcome as long as these three points are cleaerly communicated. Proposal with minimal change:
[link]Learn how to describe the purpose of the imagelink. Leave empty if the image is purely decorative.
Historical context in #41612