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Bug 45891 - External link icon for file extensions should have alt text
External link icon for file extensions should have alt text
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Low enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
: accessibility
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Reported: 2013-03-08 10:27 UTC by Gadget850
Modified: 2014-10-20 17:22 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Gadget850 2013-03-08 10:27:56 UTC
External links show an icon, but no alt text is rendered. This should be added for accessibility.
Comment 1 Andre Klapper 2013-03-08 10:38:46 UTC
Might be a WONTFIX, see bug 2443 comment 15
Comment 2 Graham87 2013-03-08 11:52:00 UTC
See this relevant discussion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Citation_Style_1#format_PDF_in_the_Template:Cite_journal.2Fdoc_examples

I've changed the summary to be more specific, now that I've realised exactly where external icons are used:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links#External_link_icons

 Alt text for them would be far more useful for screen reader users such as myself when they're used to denote file extensions, especially PDF files.
Comment 3 James Forrester 2014-04-16 20:05:20 UTC
Note that there is now only one external link icon; however, as this is a background image it can't have an alt text set on it, so this isn't a trivial change.
Comment 4 Gadget850 2014-10-17 11:12:59 UTC
Bug 54604 is a discussion on restoring icons.

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