Support for the `text` property of the `photo` entity on the frontend
annando opened this issue · 1 comments
The protocol does support a text property for the photo entity: https://diaspora.github.io/diaspora_federation/entities/photo.html
To improve the accessibility it would be good if the frontend would add support for it. By now there doesn't seem to be a possibility to add a text when uploaded a photo. If not done, of course also the processing and displaying of this alternate text should be supported.
image content without text alternative is a WCAG violation, so this is important.
Use of Diaspora in the public sector in many jurisdictions (North America, EU, Australia etc.) requires this feature.
Note: Decorative images do not need a text alternative, but should still be marked up properly.
The optimal implementation is:
GUI prompts for a text alternative in the upload dialog OR you can click a "decorative" checkbox which is unchecked by default.
If the image is implemented as <img> the text alternative is a value for the alt attribute. Purely decorative images should have a null alt attribute alt="", which should be the consequence of checking the "decorative" checkbox.
Ideally should be possible to add alt text to an image you uploaded earlier, but this is a nice-to-have.