[Koha-bugs] [Bug 12255] Amazon cover images have useless image alt text in bootstrap

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=12255

--- Comment #4 from David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au> ---
(In reply to Owen Leonard from comment #3)
> (In reply to David Cook from comment #2)
> > I think something like "Amazon.com book cover image" might actually make
> > more appropriate alt text
> 
> I would contend that "Amazon.com book cover image" is not useful information
> to a person who is navigating the the interface without images. Is it useful
> to them to know that there is a book cover image there? I would say no, but
> obviously I'm guessing.

I should ask some of my accessibility friends :). 

Admittedly, I'm mostly making guesses as well. I think that alt text of
"Amazon.com book cover image" would let people know that's the thing that
they're not seeing. 

In terms of "View at Amazon.com", that is already being provided by the "a"
element. Screen readers will pick that up, and sighted users can notice it when
hovering over the link.

I think there are cases when the alt text is supposed to be useful data. For
instance...say you have button images, and one is red to show that it's
"active" in comparison to the "inactive" blue images. In that case, I imagine
something like "active button" or "active tab" or something like that would be
useful. It's still a description, but actually useful, whereas "Amazon.com book
cover image" isn't really useful...but is still descriptive.

At least, I think that's roughly how it works. Happy to be educated otherwise. 

I'll send out some feelers to the folk I know who work/need in accessibility.

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