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There are a significant number of images of text that must be input into Eclipse in order to follow the tutorials and other examples. There is insufficient description of this critical content anywhere else in the help system or no longdesc present as required by accessibility standards. This completely prevents blind users from benefitting from the materials in the effected topics. Attached is an example of such an image.
OK. I could not extract the example image to attach (BugZilla tole me it was empty). But here is how you get to it. In the Workbench User's Guide, open the "Ant & external tools tutorial" and go to the topic "Creating a project builder Ant buildfile". In there it says: "Create a file named 'projectBuilder.xml', open the Ant editor on it, enter the following content, and save changes." The content to be entered is an image with no long desc and with the alt tag: "Content of projectBuilder.xml file". I realize it was probably convenient to put this in the help as an image, but it was unnecessary and is inaccessible. It would be better to just include the XML text. But, failing that, The XML text should be in a longdesc. This is one example of many insufficiently described images. The majority of images in the help system are sufficiently tagged. Lots of them are just pictures of dialogues and the surrounding text adequately explains what to do in the dialog. However, there are a significant number like this that leave the text-only user of the help system high and dry.
This is content issue, not help system. Transferring the bug to the DOC component.
Andrea please verify if this was an issue in 2.1.
I have reviewed the doc and corrected any instances of empty or incorrect image descriptions that I found.
Marking as fixed.
