[Pmwiki-users] Re: Re: encouraging alt text/marketing and search engines
Christian Ridderström
chr
Sun May 23 16:10:56 CDT 2004
On Sun, 23 May 2004, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 01:48:20PM -0500, Tommy Hern wrote:
> > I agree with Christian that "We might even consider an option (controlled
> > by the admin) where the user must add an alt-text -- AFAIK, they're
> > required by the standard."
>
> While this is a good idea, the question is "What should PmWiki do if someone
> places an image URL in a page but forgets the alt-text?"
>
> Possible answers:
> 1. Refuse the post
> 2. Don't convert the image URL into an inline image or link.
> 3. Treat the image as a normal URL, and then the way that something
> gets treated as an inline image is that the URL has a quoted
> string after it.
>
> Attach:filename.jpg -- link to filename.jpg
> Attach:filename.jpg"My photos" -- inline image, alt="My photos"
> Attach:filename.jpg"" -- inline image, alt=""
4. Don't convert the URI into an image, but leave it as a URI
and write in big red letters "Alternate text is missing!" ;-)
5. Show a warning just after the user has pressed "Save".
Maybe this would be a good thing to have in general, if we come
up with more things that are bad, or if the user is using a
style that is depreceated.
> Another thought: since quotation marks aren't allowed in
> URIs, an answer may be to simply include the alt text in the target,
> as in
>
> [[Attach:filename.jpg "My photos"]]
I think we need to remember that some people like spaces in their names,
so that example should be:
[[Attach:file name.jpg "My photos"]]
> This way the alt text wouldn't have to abut the URL. It becomes a bit
> trickier with
>
> [[somepage | Attach:filename.jpg "My photos"]]
>
> how do we know the author didn't intend the link text to be rendered as
> text?
Well, I just suggested:
[[somepage | [[figure file name.jpg | My photos]]
in another post. I like the symmtery of using '|' as "or" in both the link
directive and the figure directive.
/Christian
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