Forums » Help » 'Acronym' use for text-to-speech?

Not sure if I'm using the right words here! For someone who is blind or vision impaired and using a program to read their screens for them, if I use the acronym tag around a picture to describe an image, would the reader pick this up and describe the image to the person? I'm mainly hoping for visually appealing ways to make my pages more accessible. Unfortunately, the collapse tag really often mucks the layout of a page up, so it's not an option I really want to consider. Any suggestions?

You could try it with this



I guess use uh.. windows text to speech function and see if it does it?

Edit: when I used it, it took it a bit, but eventually it says what I wrote in the acronym tag if I hovered over the image starting with "tool tip: This is a picture of a flower."

So it's possible, but with screen reader programs they read ALL the info on the screen unless someone could hover on or near the object, so for someone who is vision impaired, I don't think it would help them a whole lot.

Example being: When I clicked on this page with a screen reader, it repeated "rp repository, acronym use for text to speech, rpr repository acronym use for text to speech" until I clicked elsewhere.

Putting a description of the picture UNDER or ABOVE it may do them more good, cause their screen reader would just read the text.

I'd be pretty surprised if it did! The BBCode library we use is not very finely tuned for accessibility. Or even responsiveness, out of the box.

Sounds like what you need is a way to add alt text to images?

@Kim, that sounds about right, is there any way, or plans to add a way in the future?

I'd be happy just to have a little box like wikipedia does, picture in it and a box holding description text, without needing to use columns which turns wonky as heck, often.

Also - I imagine being able to use the 'quote' box without it saying 'quote' automatically would be a nice feature.

Awhile back I managed to wedge the title attribute in, but I don't think screen readers make common use of that. I could do the same for alt text in the near future.