Bug 40462 - Alternate text for images in all online help does not pop up when mouse cursor hovers an image
Summary: Alternate text for images in all online help does not pop up when mouse curso...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: User Assistance (show other bugs)
Version: 2.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.0 M3   Edit
Assignee: Konrad Kolosowski CLA
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Keywords: accessibility
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Reported: 2003-07-18 08:59 EDT by Huanwen (Wayne) Zhang CLA
Modified: 2003-07-29 17:15 EDT (History)
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Description Huanwen (Wayne) Zhang CLA 2003-07-18 08:59:04 EDT 
When an Online Help topic with an image(s) opens, place the mouse cursor over 
an image:

Result: The alternate text for the image does not pop up.
Expected result: The alternate text for the image appears in an infopop.
Comment 1 Dorian Birsan CLA 2003-07-18 09:29:57 EDT 
It looks like this is a browser limitation, as the text is provided and it 
works fine on IE.
Comment 2 Konrad Kolosowski CLA 2003-07-18 14:22:09 EDT 
According to w3c tooltip is not provided by alt attribute of images, but 
rather by title attribute.

IBM Web Accessibility checklist does not list title as the necessary attribute 
to meet accessibility guidelines, only alt is listed.

Mozilla displays tooltip if title is provided.
IE displays tooltip if title is provided.  If title is missing, but alt 
exists, it uses that for the content of the tooltip.

Help can add title attribute to its UI in places where alt attribute currently 
exists.

You may want to open a similar bug agains doc component for ensuring that 
documentation displayed by help in Mozilla also provides tooltip for images in 
the content.
Comment 3 Konrad Kolosowski CLA 2003-07-29 17:15:09 EDT 
Fixed help HTML UI.