Last modified: 2014-06-26 22:30:40 UTC
It is recommended that when used on Wikimedia projects images are given alternative texts − see http://enwp.org/WP:ALT When using the "Use this file>Embed>Wikitext" feature, MultimediaViewer provides a wikitext snippet such as [[File:Common_Kingfisher_Alcedo_atthis.jpg|thumb|Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis]] A fr.wp user pointed out in their feedback that the snippet should have an alt= element, to encourage this accessibility best practice. (Marking as Unconfirmed as the risk of users leaving an empty alt seems high, and it seems that an empty alt is bad).
Confirmed by the user on fr.wp, according to whom “an empty alt does not bother anybody”.
I think this puts an unreasonable burden on the reuser. (How many people even know what an alt text is?) Maybe ince Wikidata gets introduced to Commons, we might could have an alt text claim for every image and MediaViewer could use that to prefill the alt field,
(In reply to Tisza Gergő from comment #2) > I think this puts an unreasonable burden on the reuser. I actually agree, but well :-) > Maybe ince Wikidata gets introduced to Commons, > we might could have an alt text claim for every image and > MediaViewer could use that to prefill the alt field, Good point. (Centralized alt text for images is tracked at bug 19906. Wikibase/Wikidata might indeed be a good way forward for that one.)
