image "alt" change to "title"

[intangibledollz]

Title
image "alt" change to "title"

Short, concise description of the idea
In the image options box, the area to enter alternate text should appear in html as "title" not "alt" in order to show up on all browsers

Full description of the ideaCurrently, when you insert an image in the RTE, the text box allowing you to insert alternate text that appears

Comments

[azurelunatic]

The alt property is used by people who have images turned off in their browser, or who are using screenreaders. Having the alt property show up as rollover is just icing on the cake.

I wouldn't oppose adding title, but getting rid of alt is in no way a good idea.

[pauamma]

Agreed.

[azurelunatic]

I wonder if having the RTE quietly copy whatever's in the alt attribute and stick it in a title attribute if there's none would work out well.

[embodyment]

For the sake of web accessibility and its standards, alt-text (alt="") is used to replace the image for browsers which cannot display it, like those who have image display disabled, visually impaired visitors, and screen reader users. It's very important to have and keep the option of alternative text (which isn't designed or intended on being supplementary or graphical text) to keep the site accessible to a variety of users. For that reason, and with the site doing what it can to keep with web standards, I disagree. However, also having a field in the RTE for users to add text for the title attribute would be a good idea.

[azurelunatic]

Just the other day I heard tell of a website whose idea of helpful alt text was "please turn on images in your browser".

[dougs]

I disagree with this suggestion -- as already stated in previous comments, alt= is vital for people reading on (deliberately?) degraded browsers that don't show images -- people who use screenreaders or braille screens, for example, or people on very low bandwidth connections.

Mouseover text an irrelevance here: it's not the intended function of the alt= text.