[Pmwiki-users] encouraging alt text was Re: markup musings, with missing #7 restored

Crisses crisses
Sun May 23 04:36:20 CDT 2004


> I was just following my own constructions, so that I would expect
>
>     [[W3C | Attach:w3c.jpg]][(World Wide Web Consortium)]
>
> to come out as
>
>     <a href='$ScriptUrl/$Group/W3C' ...><img src='.../w3c.jpg'
>       alt='World Wide Web Consortium'></a>
>
> I admit it's a little on the complex side, but we're also talking
> about doing a fairly complex (and likely rare) thing--i.e., linking
> to a wiki page using an attached image as the link text with an
> alt= attribute.  There is a good argument to be made that it should
> instead read
>
>    [[W3C | Attach:w3c.jpg[(World Wide Web Consortium)] ]]
>
> I don't know if this is better, worse, or just illustrates that this
> markup is a bad idea.  :-)

it might *BE* rare -- but it shouldn't be.  I think it's of great 
importance to make alt text for images -- whether attached or not -- 
easy to include in the wikis.  That's an accessibility issue.  I think 
that adding alt text to images should be so easy it's encouraged.
As for how to do it so it's fast and intuitive:
Quotes are disallowed in URIs?  If they are, can it be:
Attach:w3c.jpg"This is my dog Spot."
making the above [[W3C | Attach:w3c.jpg"World Wide Web Consortium"]]

or is that illegal for some reason.

Crisses




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