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Bug 64518 - MultimediaViewer does not seem to make any use of an image alternative text
MultimediaViewer does not seem to make any use of an image alternative text
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
MultimediaViewer (Other open bugs)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2014-04-27 22:21 UTC by Jean-Fred
Modified: 2014-06-26 22:30 UTC (History)
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Description Jean-Fred 2014-04-27 22:21:11 UTC 
It is recommended that when used on Wikimedia projects images are given alternative texts − see http://enwp.org/WP:ALT

A user pointed out to me that MMV does not see make use of that, going as far as saying that it should be displayed too. I am not sure about this but let's discuss that.

For an example of image with an ALT text:
https://fr.wikipedia. org/wiki/Boite_de_conserve#mediaviewer/Fichier:Moneis_CNV00008.jpg
Comment 1 Tisza Gergő 2014-04-28 20:43:46 UTC 
Not sure about showing, but at the very least it would be reasonable to use it in the HTML and wikitext embed strings.
Comment 2 Tisza Gergő 2014-06-26 19:17:02 UTC 
Also, maybe we could set the same alt text on the img element we display? Not sure if that would be actually useful.
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