[publican-list] [Bug 556691] Alt text of an image displays chapter title and not that of the textobject tag

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556691

--- Comment #3 from Jeff Fearn <jfearn at redhat.com> 2010-01-19 18:56:53 EST ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> the textobject text should be displayed to the user as the alt text. This is
> important for blind readers

The tool tip text is not generated from the the alt attribute, it is generated
from the title attribute.

The alt text is set correctly and there is no affect on accessibility for blind
readers.

The other use in DocBook for the textobject is to display the text below the
image, as shown at http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/imageobject.html, this is
controlled by enabling html.longdesc in the XSL. We turned this off a ling time
ago because people didn't like it.

You will need to discuss html.longdesc on the list if you want it changed.

You will need to discuss setting the title attribute on the image if you want
that changed.

The browser is displaying the chapter title as the tool tip because there is no
title attribute for the image and your browser is defaulting to the title for
the containing object. This behavior probably differs between browsers.

Cheers, Jeff.

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