[wp-docs] Accessibility page on Codex (James GIll)

Lorelle on WordPress lorelleonwordpress at gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 21:41:50 UTC 2012


Purely presentational images should be in the Theme not the post area.
If they are, they should be seriously reconsidered. LOL!

I understand the usage in Themes and Plugins, but not in content.
That's the area I'm addressing.

Lorelle


On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:26 PM, esmi at quirm dot net <esmi at quirm.net> wrote:
> on 20/11/2012 21:13 Lorelle on WordPress said the following:
>
>> I still believe that WordPress needs to step up more and
>> making link titles and image alternative descriptions required (in
>> addition to the title for the database) is a simple and easy to
>> implement step. Hard to do that when people click and drag stuff into
>> WordPress, but it is a start for those who use it better.
>
>
> I disagree. If you do that, then you take away people's ability to use
> purely presentational images (eye candy) which, ideally should have a null
> alt (alt="") attribute.
>
>
> Mel
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