Re: [docbook] Alternate text for table and image accessibility - textobject, alt, summary?

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Jirka Kosek <>
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2014-09-12T20:26:17+00:00
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Re: [docbook] Alternate text for table and image accessibility - textobject, alt, summary?
On 12.9.2014 18:37, Bob Stayton wrote:
> This situation clearly needs some improvement.  Before proceeding, I'd
> like to hear what others have to say regarding alt and accessibility for
> various elements, so that best practices can be followed if possible.
> For example, what should be done with any alt children of a para?

I think that except for images and tables which require special HTML
output the right solution is to concat all direct alt children into one
string and put it inside title attribute. This can be easily implemented
by extending common.html.attributes named template.

					Jirka

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