Re: [Audacity-devel] Preferences images for Manual Wiki
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From: Richard A. <ri...@au...> - 2007-12-05 08:29:41
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On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 07:08 +0000, Gale Andrews wrote: > > > Should we have frames for images always? A section that says "The > > > Selection Bar" , then an image underneath with a frame underneath that > > > saying "The Selection Bar" is overkill isn't it? > > > http://www.audacityteam.org/manual/index.php?title=Selecting#The_Selection_Bar > > > > I've no problem with that, but equally if you want to get a style guide > > together that says when to use the frame/caption and when not, that > > would be good too. > > If there is a need to reinforce a point that isn't obvious from just looking at > the image, frames are fine, and I can see examples now where they are > used well e.g. you can get some idea of the page content just by > scanning the images and associated frame text. I just don't want to feel > that we always have to use them in a simple case like the above. How does that leave us for alt-text? At the moment images with a frame and a caption have the caption as alt-text, but images without just have the image name as the alt-text. This isn't very good for people trying to use text-mode browsers or screen readers on the manual. It's quite easy to hide the display of the caption whilst keeping the frame - just put another pipe character right before the closing ]], as I've done with the first image on http://www.audacityteam.org/manual/index.php?title=Selecting#The_Selection_Bar Unfortunately that doesn't set the alt text at all, which is even less use - mediawiki bug? Whilst I'm trying to read the manual, can we do something about navigation? Currently if you aren't logged in, there isn't any. We have a big empty side-bar with only a search box. Should there not be at least a link to the top of the manual and maybe the top level sections (whatever they become). Rihard |