Accessibility - Custom alt and title tags [#544948]

Currently the image alt and title tags are taken from the term name and description. However, this doesn't provide a way to conform with accessibility guidelines that state that an alt tag must be used to describe the function of the image, which in many cases the term description does not do. The ability to customise the title tag is a must to.

Comments

Comment #1

skizzo commented 6 October 2009 at 07:47

I second the request. I am using Creative Commons licensed images that require attribution, and was thinking of using the "alt" attribute for that purpose. The project page says that I can add custom tags to img markup, but I have not found a way of doing it, so currently I am not providing any attribution at all. Thank you.

Comment #2

nairb commented 30 July 2010 at 15:33

Custom tags means you can add a

tag around your

tag.

I would like to see the ability to customize the alt attribute too. It would provide more meaningful accessibility, especially if you need to be section 508 compliant.

Comment #3

Everett Zufelt commented 13 August 2010 at 18:15

Category:	feature	» bug
Priority:	Normal	» Critical

Changing to a critical bug. WCAG 2.0 requires that an alternate text description be provided for images. The alt text should be descriptive of the image and if that is not the current case then some users will not be able to perceive the meaning of the image within the page.