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Bug 21042 - Image magnifying glass needs alt text
Image magnifying glass needs alt text
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Interface (Other open bugs)
1.16.x
All All
: Lowest trivial (vote)
: ---
Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://wave.webaim.org/report?url=htt...
: accessibility, patch, patch-need-review
Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2009-10-07 18:32 UTC by Stefano Codari
Modified: 2011-03-13 18:06 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---

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Patch for the issue (584 bytes, patch)
2009-10-07 18:32 UTC, Stefano Codari 		Details
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Description Stefano Codari 2009-10-07 18:32:27 UTC 
Created attachment 6644 [details]
Patch for the issue

The small buttons that links to the enlarged versions of the images has the tag alt empty.

This cause an accessibility issue.

The patch is attached.

Regards
Comment 1 Roan Kattouw 2009-10-07 18:35:09 UTC 
Wasn't this removed on purpose?
Comment 2 Chad H. 2009-10-07 18:35:43 UTC 
Tweaking summary.
Comment 3 Stefano Codari 2009-10-08 12:53:27 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Wasn't this removed on purpose?
> 

I don't understand the reason to remove it.
Comment 4 Chad H. 2009-10-08 13:32:01 UTC 
The reason is outlined in bug 371 and r18502.

The rationale behind it is that if a user can't view images, providing a link to enlarge the image is useless at best. WONTFIXing per bug 371.
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