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jadelennox ([personal profile] jadelennox) wrote in [community profile] accessibility_fail2011-08-21 05:02 pm
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you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Two great examples of accessibility fail from London:

a door to the back entrance of Great Scotland Yard, paint peeling, which contains a wheelchair icon and the sign disabled persons entrance, right above the single step to the door.

A plaque with the wheelchair icon and the phrase Welcome. Touch here for assistance. Next to restaurant which has a step up and a table with a single chair outside the step on the pavement. The plaque is, incidentally, at least 4 feet off the ground and behind a pole.
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[personal profile] teafeather 2011-08-22 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
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: O RLY: all caps on oscar space no space on romeo lima yankee (gimp: o rly?)

[personal profile] jadelennox 2011-08-22 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
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. :-(

[personal profile] teafeather 2011-08-22 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
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: O RLY: all caps on oscar space no space on romeo lima yankee (gimp: o rly?)

[personal profile] jadelennox 2011-08-22 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
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)?
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[personal profile] willow 2011-08-22 08:15 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] jeshyr 2011-08-27 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[personal profile] teafeather 2011-08-22 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] sophie 2011-09-15 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
How are you viewing the post? (as in, which screen reader are you using (if any), etc?)
Edited 2011-09-15 16:22 (UTC)
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