The current description for the ALT text field is:
"Alternate text to be displayed if the image cannot be displayed."

This is misleading users who aren't familiar with how ALT text works.
One user on a site wrote:
"The image of [blah blah] cannot be displayed at the moment."

This is inappropriate for site visitors who use screen readers (and rather rude I think too!). It also looks a bit rubbish when the page is being loaded.

I'm not sure what to suggest that is better, but the "cannot" is inaccurate.

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quicksketch’s picture

quicksketch
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Status: Active » Fixed

Thanks I've updated it to:

Alternate text is used to describe the image. This text will be used by screen readers, search engines, or when the image cannot be loaded.

Most people won't care about screen readers, but everyone will fill out their ALT text if it gets them some SEO. :)

quicksketch’s picture

quicksketch
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Hmm, well I think I was a little verbose. I shortened to:

This text will be used by screen readers, search engines, or when the image cannot be loaded.

And applied to the D6 version also.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.