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Joomla! Accessibility

You're reading from   Joomla! Accessibility A quick guide to creating accessible websites with Joomla!

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2007
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847194084
Length 156 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Decorative Versus Non-decorative Images


As mentioned in Chapter 4, it is important to know which images should be given alternate text, what appropriate alternate text is, and equally when not to use alternate text at all. XStandard makes it easy to handle either situation.

XStandard will prompt you to identify an image as Decorative or non-decorative. The editor then goes on to the Alternate text for all non‑decorative images and also permits the author to enter a Description and a Long description URL for a more detailed description if required.

Using the Long description URL to provide a more detailed description of an image is useful when you are using images that really need complex and detailed descriptions. This may be the case if you work in an academic environment or something similar.

However, in some situations it may be better to include the information that the image contains somewhere in the body text if possible.

Note

If the image is identified as decorative, the fields Alternate...

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