you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

[jadelennox]

Two great examples of accessibility fail from London:

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[trouble]

What are they even thinking?

[subluxate]

What, you didn't get your hovering wheelchair yet?

[teafeather]

As a blind person I'm a little frustrated when people post "accessibility fail" images and then don't describe what's in the images. :(

[lilacsigil]

Not the OP, but...

Image 1: A green door with the sign "Disabled Persons' Entrance". It has one steep step.

Image 2: A busy cafe that is open to the street. A wheelchair sign is prominent. The whole cafe is up a step (and very crowded with tables and chairs) except for one lonely table and single chair on the footpath at the front.

[teafeather]

Thank you!

[lauredhel]

Thanks! As a sighted person, I'm also wondering about the significant of the striped pole, the blue badge, and the possibly textured paving surface in the second image. I thought maybe it was meant to be a taxi stand or something for PWD, which the cafe proprietor had whacked a table into the middle of.

And I'm also thinking that the first customer to move their chair is going to fall right off the edge.

[lilacsigil]

I've seen the same kind of textured footpath in Melbourne - it's not an aid, it lights up at night. I don't know about the blue badge, though - on closer inspection, it also has a large button that says "push here for assistance".

[jadelennox]

I put in alt text and tested to make sure it worked -- did the alt text not show up for you?

[teafeather]

It's not showing up for me. I just checked the page source and I see it in there. Sorry for grumping at you.

I don't know if this is a FireFox issue or something else. Alt text is working fine on other sites.

[jadelennox]

Well that sucks, I'm sorry! I just checked it in my Firefox with NVDA and the alt text appeared, but then, my Firefox just auto-upgraded 5 minutes ago so maybe it's something that wasn't working on an older version. I was hoping there was something obviously wrong so I could fix it. :-(

[teafeather]

Further exploration leads me to believe this may be a Dreamwidth problem. I can't get the alt-text to show up in Chrome or Opera, either. Sigh.

[jadelennox]

Not good. Do you have the time or energy to debug with me a bit, so I can fix it? (If not, I totally understand.) Are you using a screen reader or is it just browsers with images off? And is the rest of the alt text on the page showing up (such as userpics, etc)?

[willow]

I'm using PaleMoon which is built off Gecko/Mozilla engine. My 'view image info' shows me your Associated Text. But there was nothing when I hovered over. And now I'm wondering at how long I've been taking for granted that there just WAS NO alt text.

[jeshyr]

Note: Using Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc. hovering over an image does not show you the "alt" text. The hover=alt thing only happens in Internet Explorer.

When those browsers do show you something on hover they show you the "title" text for the image - which is really what the title text is for, after all. You won't visually see "alt" text unless you use view-info or something like that.

[teafeather]

Staying home from work today (bad cold ON TOP OF seasonal allergies) so I have plenty of time but possibly not enough energy. Sigh.

Other alt text on Dreamwidth is working fine (userpics, buttons, etc)

I appreciate you taking the time to help me with this.

[sophie]

How are you viewing the post? (as in, which screen reader are you using (if any), etc?)

[lilacsigil]

Seriously? My workplace (in Australia) had to pass an inspection to get one of those signs! Hint: we have no steps.

[treeowl]

That second image is too fuzzy for me to make out what the sign actually says, so I hesitate to guess whether it refers to the inaccessible restaurant or something else. That first image, however, is really something.