Configure alternate text during image insertion
When you insert an image in a topic, you can also choose to have the CCMS automatically insert the image's title as alternative text.
About this task
The alternate text is the text that a user enters in the Title field when adding or importing an image. You can configure the IXIA CCMS so that when an image is inserted, the title
- is included as alternate text in the
<alt>element of the<image>element (preferred) - is included as alternate text in the
@altattribute of the<image>element - is not included as alternate text in the <image> element
For example, if you opt to use <alt>, and you insert an image
whose title is Example of Search Results filter, the underlying XML looks like
this:
<image alt="Example of Search Results filter" keyref="lar1371584859805" id="image_hhn_qyj_4k"/>Note: In DITA 1.0, the convention was to use the
@alt attribute of the <alt> element for
alternate text. This approach was deprecated in later versions of DITA in favor of
<alt> but the @alt attribute is still valid.
DITA 2.0 has removed the @alt altogether so if you are considering a
move to DITA 2.0, you need to refactor all @alt attributes to
<alt>.Changes to the alternate text handling do not affect any images that have already been inserted in topics.
Important: Make configuration changes in a test
environment and confirm they work before copying them to a production
environment.