User:Lexein/Alternative text resources

Which articles to check? Perhaps the most popular:
 * http://stats.grok.se/en/top

This is a list of resources from the WP:ALT discussion archives, and additional.

Archive 1 links

 * Hickson. Alt Text. Ian Hickson's FAQ
 * W3C Use the alt attribute to describe the function of each visual
 * W3 W3 HTML4 objects "attribute must be specified, but the attribute is allowed to be empty"
 * W3 "Provide a text equivalent". W3.org
 * Flavell is mentioned. "Use of ALT texts in IMGs", part of his series "Text-friendly authoring topics",

Archive 2 links

 * 2003-2005
 * Examples - Subpage with 100 alt-text examples with opinion of each by mpt.
 * Wikipedia_accessibility
 * "Guidelines on using ALT texts in IMG elements" Jukka Korpela. Point: Redundant images call for empty alt
 * Also Rules of thumb -#8 - alt="[Graphic presentation of the ventilation system]" is at best an interim solution. Doesn't perform the function which the image performed.


 * W3C WCAG 2.0 Guideline 1.1 Text Alternatives - pure decoration should have blank alt=

Archive 3 links

 * User:Dispenser/alttextexplorer.js Alt text explorer - tool for sighted users to show alt text in a box below the image. Crashed on Raquel Welch.


 * RNIB
 * "Describing images on the Web: a survey of current practice and prospects for the future" (PDF_. Helen Petrie, Chandra Harrison and Sundeep Dev. Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design - City University London. (2006?) Two complaints: no alt text, or no useful info in alt text
 * "Increasing Web Accessibility by Automatically Judging Alternative Text" (PDF) Jeffrey P. Bigham - 2007
 * http://www.egovmon.no/upload/downloads/icchp2010.pdf
 * http://www.mortengoodwin.net/publicationfiles/course_pr_suspicous_description.pdf


 * "Some features of alt texts associated with images in Web pages". Vol. 11 No. 2, January 2006. Information Research.net  Timothy C. Craven (Faculty of Information and Media Studies, The University of Western Ontario). Summarizes work to 2006 date, and surveys current usage.


 * Text Alternatives for Images (alt-text). Jim Thatcher. Examples of usage, including a rationale for longdesc, which may have application to the Description field on File: pages or Commons pages. (IMO such pages are rather cluttered for a user to easily find'' the description.)