Bug 39558 - ACCESSIBILITY: Functionality request: Prompt for text alternative when inserting picture (accessibility)
Summary: ACCESSIBILITY: Functionality request: Prompt for text alternative when insert...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version: 3.5.0 RC1
Hardware: Other All
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Reported: 2011-07-26 07:22 UTC by Christophe Strobbe
Modified: 2013-02-03 19:45 UTC (History)
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Description Christophe Strobbe 2011-07-26 07:22:20 UTC
When creating accessible documents, images and other objects need a text alternative. This text alternative is used in text-to-speech (for example in screen readers) and when converting to other formats such as audio books and Braille. In Writer, a text alternative can be added after inserting a picture, but it would be more efficient to allow users to add the text alternative while inserting the picture.

The current process is:
1. Through the menus, go to Insert -> Picture -> From file...; 
2. Browse to the image file and press Open.
3. In the Writer document, right-click on the picture, then either
3.a. select Picture from the context menu, go to the Options tab and fill in the field 'Alternative (Text only)', or
3.b. select Description from the context menu, and fill in Title (if the picture is so clomplex that it requires an elaborate description, also fill in Description).

The new process would be:
1. Through the menus, go to Insert -> Picture -> From file...; 
2. Browse to the image file, fill in the field 'Alternative (Text only)' and press Open.
(When you then right-click on the picture, you should find the text alternative both on the Options tab of the Picture dialog and in the Title field of the Description dialog.)

Some WYSIWYG HTML editors have supported this for years (for example the Composer that is part of Mozilla Seamonkey, and previously Netscape Composer).
See also the current working draft of the W3C Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 and the implementation guidance at http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-IMPLEMENTING-ATAG20-20110721/#sc_b222 .

This issue is currently linked to Writer, but it is also relevant to Impress.
Comment 1 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 12:27:18 UTC
[This is an automated message.]
This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it
started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is
changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back
to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases.
Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1

more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html
Comment 2 Christophe Strobbe 2012-01-27 03:57:56 UTC
Version info was previously unspecified. I confirm that this functionality request is still relevant to LibreOffice 3.5.0 RC1. Changing the status from NEEDINFO to NEW.


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