On some of my English language webpages, I have images of Dutch books.
In the alt text for this image, I give the title of the book, for
example:
<img src="maan.jpg" alt="Cover of De reis naar de maan" />
Now I would like to indicate that the phrase 'De reis naar de maan' is
Dutch, for the profit of users with a screen reader and others who may
benefit from it. Unfortunately I can't use a <span lang="nl"> inside
the alt attribute. I could perhaps do something like
<img src="maan.jpg" lang="nl" alt="De reis naar de maan" />
but I guess that would mean that the natural language of the image is
Dutch, which is nonsense.
Is there any other way to indicate the language of an alt text, and
even a language change inside an alt text?
Thanks,
Garmt de Vries. 6 2898
On 8/9/04 10:37 am, Garmt de Vries wrote: ... I could perhaps do something like
<img src="maan.jpg" lang="nl" alt="De reis naar de maan" />
but I guess that would mean that the natural language of the image is Dutch, which is nonsense.
That looks fine to me.
(From <http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970917/struct/objects.html#ad ef-alt>): alt = cdata For user agents that cannot display images, forms, or applets, this attribute specifies alternate text. The language of the alternate text is specified by the lang attribute.
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(Please remove the "z"s if replying by email) gd*****@hotmail .com (Garmt de Vries) wrote: <img src="maan.jpg" alt="Cover of De reis naar de maan" />
Now I would like to indicate that the phrase 'De reis naar de maan' is Dutch, for the profit of users with a screen reader and others who may benefit from it. Unfortunately I can't use a <span lang="nl"> inside the alt attribute.
<span lang="nl"><img src="maan.jpg" alt="Cover of De reis naar de maan"
/></span>
I'd suggest that "Cover of" isn't Dutch. Use "Omslag van" instead.
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Garmt de Vries wrote: <img src="maan.jpg" alt="Cover of De reis naar de maan" />
<object data="maan.jpg" type="image/jpeg">
Cover of <cite xml:lang="nl">D e reis naar de maan</cite>.
</object>
Support for <object> isn't as wide as for <img>, and IE does weird things
with scroll bars, but this should properly convey the information.
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Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact gd*****@hotmail .com (Garmt de Vries) wrote: <img src="maan.jpg" alt="Cover of De reis naar de maan" />
Now I would like to indicate that the phrase 'De reis naar de maan' is Dutch, for the profit of users with a screen reader and others who may benefit from it.
A noble goal, but HTML is too limited for that in practice (since
<object> is an impractical solution to embedding images in WWW
authoring). Besides, I'm afraid most speech-based user agents don't
support language switching very well, though the situation is improving.
I wonder if they support Dutch - they probably have a fairly limited
language repertoire.
<img src="maan.jpg" lang="nl" alt="De reis naar de maan" />
but I guess that would mean that the natural language of the image is Dutch, which is nonsense.
By definition, the lang attribute specifies the language of the element's
content _and attributes_, so it would be OK. After all, an image _may_
have a language property; for example, a book cover probably contains the
name of the book, in a particular language. I doubt whether we'll ever
see user agents that are able to scan an image, recognize text in it, and
speak it, using the language information in the lang attribute. But
there's nothing illogical in the idea of using language information when
processing an image.
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Korpela <jk******@cs.tu t.fi> writes gd*****@hotmai l.com (Garmt de Vries) wrote:
<img src="maan.jpg" alt="Cover of De reis naar de maan" />
Now I would like to indicate that the phrase 'De reis naar de maan' is Dutch, for the profit of users with a screen reader and others who may benefit from it.
A noble goal, but HTML is too limited for that in practice (since <object> is an impractical solution to embedding images in WWW authoring). Besides, I'm afraid most speech-based user agents don't support language switching very well, though the situation is improving. I wonder if they support Dutch - they probably have a fairly limited language repertoire.
<img src="maan.jpg" lang="nl" alt="De reis naar de maan" />
but I guess that would mean that the natural language of the image is Dutch, which is nonsense.
By definition, the lang attribute specifies the language of the element's content _and attributes_, so it would be OK. After all, an image _may_ have a language property; for example, a book cover probably contains the name of the book, in a particular language. I doubt whether we'll ever see user agents that are able to scan an image, recognize text in it, and speak it, using the language information in the lang attribute. But there's nothing illogical in the idea of using language information when processing an image.
Couldn't try it in Dutch ..... but the same concept (lang="xx" in the
<IMG> tag) works OK in French.
regards.
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Jake gd*****@hotmail .com (Garmt de Vries) wrote in message news:<52******* *************** ****@posting.go ogle.com>... Is there any other way to indicate the language of an alt text, and even a language change inside an alt text?
Thanks, all, for your comments. I think I'll stick with what I had.
I'm not too keen on using <object> instead of <img>. Also, I'd like to
let viitors of these English pages know that the image is a cover of a
book, so I should write "Cover of" rather than "Omslag van". This way,
the title itself won't be pronounced properly, but it wasn't really
going to be anyway, since Dutch is probably not widely supported by
speech browsers...
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