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Originally Posted by rubeus
Thats completly wrong. As you quotet, it should be a alternative text. Not a descriptive Text. Just read book loud and you will notice that a decsroipzve text is nonsens.
I dont udnerstand why you interpret "alterantive" as decriptive.
Sorry this is boaring discussing things with somepne having no glue and interpreting things in the way you do.
Choose a decriptive text, i dont care. Not worth reading and writing here more.
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I'm sorry--why do you think that this is completely wrong? What do you believe qualifies as "alternative" text? I mean, use your own example--you have a picture with a house that shows clearly on the image that it's house #10 on X street, say, a placard next to the door, saying "10 Smith Street."
According to what you've written, if I understand you, you think the alt should read "10." Or "10 Smith Street."
But if Jane Doe, a blind reader, is reading this book, and the book reading app tells her that the image is "10," what on earth does that mean to her? Or even "10 Smith Street?" If it were me (and I listen to some books when working out), I certainly don't want some mystery item dropped into the book. I'd expect it to say "an image of a house with the placard 10 Smith Street shown next to the door."
How else would the blind person put the image in context?
I'd agree that adding alt attributes to a fleuron is a waste of everyone's time, including the reader. But what, if a clue is an image of some jumbled letters, should the alt be "letters?" "Numbers?" If the clue is important to (say, a detective) story, shouldn't the blind reader or listener have the same opportunity to solve the case as the sighted reader?
Perhaps there's some value to having a discussion about what the "alt" should be on a website, but for ebooks, it's OBVIOUSLY to give the user something useful in the context of the book, not simply something "alternative." In this use, the "alternative" means, "a way of understanding the image for the book," not some weirdo "alternative" thing that is irrelevant or WORSE to the book.
Hitch (who is profoundly confused by this argument about alt).