Template talk:Tick

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editprotect All the templates listed on the template page need to updated to offer relevant alt text for the visually impaired, thanks Gnevin (talk) 21:48, 20 March 2010 (UTC)


 * How will this interact with the non-displaying "Y" or "N" included when these templates are transcluded? This template is transcluded a few thousand times, and I would hate to do that to the poor servers if this is a non-issue. - 2/0 (cont.) 05:16, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * What are these non-displaying Ys and Ns actually for? I've deactivated this request for now, as it seems some discussion is warranted here. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:08, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * The non-displaying Y and N are so they sort correctly and adding alt text doesn't change the functionality. See User:Gnevin/sandbox7 Gnevin (talk) 13:53, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Done for Template:Tick and Template:Cross, as they have no text; is this also needed for the other templates? There are quite a few... James F. (talk) 16:16, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * ... and now also to Template:Check mark, Template:Y, Template:Aye, Template:Check mark-n, and Template:U2713; and Template:X mark big, Template:N, Template:Nay, Template:X mark-n, and Template:X mark. Of course I couldn't add alt-text to glyphs, only to images, so a couple weren't appropriate. James F. (talk) 16:24, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, the glyphs may need to be AFD'd Gnevin (talk) 16:42, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Sorry to be a pain but these should also include link=. So they don't link anywhere. Thanks Gnevin (talk) 19:00, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Mostly done, but some of the crosses are GFDL/CC-3.0 images so I have skipped those due to attribution problems. I'm uncertain what the current status of that problem is. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 01:15, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Request edit
Request edit to alt text to match graphic "Green tick" instead of current "yes". Reason: this is used for things other than the word yes i.e. "support", "approved", "reliable", "solved", etc. ~ R.T.G 00:59, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Used in hundreds of articles
The documentation says "It is not for use in articles." but the tick is used in hundreds of articles, particularly via other templates such as Rugbybox and Chembox and etc.

Either the documentation needs updating (easy), or an entirely new "tick template for use in articles" needs to be created and propagated (hard). I'm not sure why the latter would be needed, but I'm sleepy, so...? –Quiddity (talk) 07:04, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I'm going through an article where the image has been included manually. It's a mess and a template would make things much nicer, especially around accessibility. Techtoucian (talk) 14:08, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

Alt text


I notice that the image generated by this template has an HTML ALT tag of "Yes check.svg". In-line with WP:ACCESSIBILITY this is rather unsatisfactory - it should simply say "yes" to support screen readers for blind users. I would like to suggest that an extra parameter is added to this template to allow editors to specify a custom ALT tag, e.g.

which would then generate

This should also be added to all the other related templates listed here under the See also heading. I think will probably agree! Can anyone make this change?

Many thanks! Cnbrb (talk) 12:31, 15 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Tick is usually used as a shorthand in talk discussions. I think supplying an alt in transclusions is therefore a bit unrealistic, but allowing the option does no harm I suppose. Regarding a default, I suppose MOS:ACCIM and MOS:ALT are appropriate to consider here, I can see the accessibility concern raised. I'm not sure all the "see also" templates meet the need for an alt; they are typically accompanied by text next to them to actually explain the purpose (so eg for ✅ having an alt would be like "Done done"). But as this is solely an image, it could be appropriate to set its default alt to "tick". ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 18:17, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
 * are you happy with "tick" or do you have an alternative suggestion? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:10, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
 * It's down to context of usage, which is why I requested the option to specify an alt tag text. Specifically, in this table I would like to use the words "completed" and "not completed". The ✅ template would be slightly less cumbersome than writing out the wiki image embed code each time. Also, article use in tables is in-line with WP:APPROPRIATEICONS, so I don't foresee any problems here. Are you concerned about mmisuse in some way? Cnbrb (talk) 13:42, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Personally, I'm not concerned about adding a parameter for this. We just need to decide what the default should be. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:30, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see, sorry. Yes "tick" might be appropriate, although Americans may insist on "check"! Cnbrb (talk) 16:47, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes maybe as a concession to the Americans we should make it "check". A tick is an animal after all. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:00, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
 * But "check" has something of a checkered history.... Cnbrb (talk) 10:40, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I think "tick" or "check" would be fine as default alt text. Graham 87 05:03, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done default is "check" &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:21, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 23 December 2021
Change  to   so the brown check will render as brown. -- lomrjyo  🐱(✉ • 📝) 03:55, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ Nardog (talk) 04:04, 23 December 2021 (UTC)