Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:41:11 UTC
In commons, don't say alt="". If we don't download the file for various reasons, we scratch our heads at what we are supposed to be seeing. Say alt="[example.jpg]" perhaps. </ul><div class="fullImageLink" id="file"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/example.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/example.jpg/420px-example.jpg" width="420" height="599" alt="" /></a><br />
Where's the contextual information?
What's "in commons" mean? Is there some _particular place_ where this behavior appears, in contrast to other places where it does not? It would be helpful if bug reporter would provide complete information.
Ok, I think he's referring to the <img> which displays the actual file or resized/rendered image on an Image: page. Currently these specify an alt attribute, but with no text. IIRC XHTML 1.0 Transitional requires the alt attribute to be present, hence the empty attribute when there's no useful text. It might be nice to put some alt text in there. For rendered images it might say "download full-size image", but that's already repeated in an explicit text link below. For non-rendered images, no download link is actually present... though it might be nice to change that for consistency.
If someone is seeing the alt text, surely odds are they won't be able to make use of a downloaded full-size image? Since the image is kind of the entire point of an image page, appropriate alt text would be more like "{{PAGENAME}} cannot be displayed".
There are reasons other than being unable to see/see well for switching off image downloads.
Yes, okay, and you're probably right that this is the majority nowadays. Regardless, there's still that "click to download full version" link, so it would be redundant.
Added in r18502: alt text is now the equivalent of "{{FULLPAGENAME}}".
