Panopoly is inconsistent in how it names alt text fields.

Since Media (#1 below) uses "Alt Text," and it's a bit harder for us to change that, this would be the easiest label to standardize on. IMO "Alternative Text" is friendlier, but to do that we'd have to form_alter the media forms and that probably isn't worth the maintenance cost.

Here are some of the variations:

1. Create a new page and in the WYSIWYG (TinyMCE) choose Add Media. Upload (or select existing) image. Here you see:

<label for="edit-field-file-image-alt-text-und-0-value">Alt Text </label>
<input class="text-full form-text" type="text" id="edit-field-file-image-alt-text-und-0-value" name="field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]" value="" size="60" maxlength="255">

2. Create a new page and add a Featured Image. Here you see:

<label for="edit-field-featured-image-und-0-alt">Alt Text</label>
<input type="text" id="edit-field-featured-image-und-0-alt" name="field_featured_image[und][0][alt]" value="" size="60" maxlength="512" class="form-text">

3. Go to an existing page and click Customize this Page (at bottom). Add a new pane. Click add image. Choose an image and upload it. Here you see:

<label for="edit-field-basic-image-image-und-0-alt">Alternate text </label>
<input type="text" id="edit-field-basic-image-image-und-0-alt" name="field_basic_image_image[und][0][alt]" value="" size="60" maxlength="512" class="form-text"> 

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bwood’s picture

Added related issues which involve tests which rely on the value of the Alternative Text Field label.

bwood’s picture

Title: Standardize Alternate Text lable » Standardize Alternate Text label
dsnopek’s picture

I agree about going with what Media does, that is: "Alt text".

bwood’s picture

When we work on this we'll want to commit changes to the affected tests right after the modifications to standardize the labels so that Travis test succeed.

lsolesen’s picture

@bwood Should probably be in the same commit so the build never breaks :)