Alternative Image Text Mandatory

Thursday 29 September 2005 3:47:35 am

Do anyone know how to make any of the input text field mandatory on the admin side of the site.

For e.g. While creating a new image I want "Alternative Image Text" input text field to be mandatory like the "Name" field for the image name.

So that if someone left this field blank while uploading an image, system should give an error.

Please help

Cheers

Friday 30 September 2005 1:41:36 am

Hi mark,

Thanks for your kind reply and help. I think it is very necessary to make the 'Alternative Image Text' mandatory input field to meet standards and validations of the page. To solve the problem regarding alt tags for decorative images, we can always use a space instead of writing anything in the "Alternative Image Text" input field when it is made mandatory.

Another thing which I have noticed is regarding the uploading of the images in an article. Anybody can upload an image in the "Related Objects" section with the use of "Upload New" button without writing any alternative image text, it totally bypasses the "Image Creation" screen. Similar thing is happening with Online editor upload functionality. So the result is anybody can upload any image without using "Alternative Image Text" straight way. We need some kind of validation there as well. What you think?

Cheers

Monday 15 October 2007 8:46:11 am

hi,

seems there is no solution up to now, to comply with w3c wai standards i made a new override-template for ezimage where i check if an "Alternative Image Text" was given for the image. if not i display the original filename as "Alt Text".

<img src={$image.url|ezroot} width="{$image.width}" height="{$image.height}" {section show=$hspace}hspace="{$hspace}"{/section} style="border: {$border_size}px;" alt="{if $image.text|eq('')}{$image.original_filename}{else}{$image.text|wash(xhtml)}{/if}">

i know its not the best solution, but one which works

so long

Tuesday 02 September 2008 8:23:45 am

I think it is the still same issue after three years. Not been introduced in ezpublish 4.0.x.

Anyone????