ALT text with rich:column and rich:spacer

[robertmarkbram]

Hi All,

The website I am working on needs to abide by the Vic gov usability criteria which states that ALT tags for spacers etc need to be ALT=" " (note the space) rather than ALT="", which is what I see that rich:column and rich:spacer generates now. Their rationale for this is that for ALT=“” "some screen-readers will read the SRC tag of the image".

Is there any way to achieve this?

Thanks for any advice,

Rob

[nbelaevski]

Hi Rob,

We are using empty ALT, because if you use alt="<space>", IE will show ugly empty hints on images hover. If "alt" is empty, then this doesn't happen.

P.S. Added JIRA RFC to review the problem: https://jira.jboss.org/browse/RF-8690

[robertmarkbram]

Hi Nick,

What is involved in editing and re-compiling source if I need to do this anyway? I have asked the client to reconsider this option, but I know what way I would decide if it's a choice between IE and ugly hovers vs screen readers reading out URLs.

Rob

[nbelaevski]

Rob,

Recompiling is easy: http://community.jboss.org/wiki/HowToBuildRichFacesSnapshotsManually33x . For changing you'll have to replace in renderers all empty entries of "alt" attribute with spaced one.