Bug #15526
closed
Image caption as image alt
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Description
There should be constant to render image caption as image alt, when alt is empty.
Default value should be 'true'.
(issue imported from #M2423)
Updated by Administrator Admin almost 19 years ago
Please not!
alt text is meant as a substitute for information which is give by the image contents. If there is a caption there is no sense in doubling it as an alt text.
No additional information is given and it is very anoying to screenreader users - the get all the text read twice!
If there is a constant (I dont't think its needed) default should be 'false'!
Updated by John Angel almost 19 years ago
Alt image would boost the ranking on search engines.
There would be no doubling of information if feature #0002424 is implemented, too.
Updated by Ernesto Baschny over 18 years ago
This can already be done in TYPO3 4.0, since processing of alt/title/caption are all controlled through TypoScript (cObject and stdWrap). For example this is the cObject that will get added in the altText element for each image:
tt_content.image.20.1.altText
just try something like "isEmpty" property to attach the (splitted) caption at that part if its empty. I think some TypoScript wizard will be able to produce some bright TS-code to do that.
Updated by Ingmar Schlecht over 18 years ago
As this feature is already possible as Ernesto showed, I'm closing this bug report now.