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double captions just as bad as none for non-visual users
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Description

Sorry to be a bore as this has surely been reported. Every page with
images has this problem:
$ w3m -dump http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Free_software|grep mascot
Tux, the Linux mascot.
Tux, the Linux mascot.

In the past we campaigned for alt="..." for readers who do not
download images. But now we get it twice instead of none. Just as bad.

Why not just have alt="Image:Tux.svg" instead of repeating the
caption?

Or do something fancy in stylesheets for visual users, and leave the
basics non-doubled for non-visual users.

This doubled caption effect of yours means that you do not pass even
the most basic of web accessibility tests! (others yes, but not the
most basic.)


Version: 1.7.x
Severity: minor
OS: Linux
Platform: PC

Details

Reference
bz8186

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 9:33 PM
bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Parser.
bzimport set Reference to bz8186.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

ayg wrote:

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 368 ***