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    At wikis.sun.com we use Gliffy to create diagrams for documentation of our products. This kind of documentation requires us to be 508 compliant. A part of the 508 requirements is to provide alternative text for all the images on the site. Unfortunately Gliffy doesn't support this very simple feature. Please implement it.

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    At wikis.sun.com we use Gliffy to create diagrams for documentation of our products. This kind of documentation requires us to be 508 compliant. A part of the 508 requirements is to provide alternative text for all the images on the site. Unfortunately Gliffy doesn't support this very simple feature. Please implement it.

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Chris Kohlhardt added a comment - 06/Jun/08 12:22 PM

Shannon,

Can you please implement this in the Macro?

I'm thinking that the alt text would look something like: "Gliffy Diagram titled $diagramName"

-chris

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Chris Kohlhardt added a comment - 06/Jun/08 12:22 PM Shannon, Can you please implement this in the Macro? I'm thinking that the alt text would look something like: "Gliffy Diagram titled $diagramName" -chris
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Igor Minar added a comment - 06/Jun/08 12:41 PM

Hi Chris,

We'd preffer to be able to define the alt text as an argument in the macro like this:

{gliffy:name=My Diagram|space=MySpace|page=MyPage|pageid=1234|align=left|size=L|alt="This figure shows the individual computers and the software installed on them for the multi-host deployment example."}
<img ............ alt="This figure shows the individual computers and the software installed on them for the multi-host deployment example." />

It would be nice if Gliffy would generate the alt text as you described it in cases when an explicit definition in the macro is missing.

thanks!

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Igor Minar added a comment - 06/Jun/08 12:41 PM Hi Chris, We'd preffer to be able to define the alt text as an argument in the macro like this:
{gliffy:name=My Diagram|space=MySpace|page=MyPage|pageid=1234|align=left|size=L|alt="This figure shows the individual computers and the software installed on them for the multi-host deployment example."}
<img ............ alt="This figure shows the individual computers and the software installed on them for the multi-host deployment example." />
It would be nice if Gliffy would generate the alt text as you described it in cases when an explicit definition in the macro is missing. thanks!
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Joe Sciallo added a comment - 06/Jun/08 1:58 PM

Any idea on when we could expect this fix?

Thanks.

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Joe Sciallo added a comment - 06/Jun/08 1:58 PM Any idea on when we could expect this fix? Thanks.
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Chris Kohlhardt added a comment - 06/Jun/08 2:49 PM

Thanks for the feedback, Igor. Shannon, please include Igor's suggestion into the feature. Please update the related documentation as well.

This should be an easy fix, and we'll try and get it into the 1.4 release. (our next release)

Igor & Joe, which versions of Confluence are you running?

thanks

-chris

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Chris Kohlhardt added a comment - 06/Jun/08 2:49 PM Thanks for the feedback, Igor. Shannon, please include Igor's suggestion into the feature. Please update the related documentation as well. This should be an easy fix, and we'll try and get it into the 1.4 release. (our next release) Igor & Joe, which versions of Confluence are you running? thanks -chris
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Igor Minar added a comment - 06/Jun/08 3:07 PM

We currently run Confluence 2.7.0.

Do you have any approximate date for the 1.4 release?

cheers,
Igor

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Igor Minar added a comment - 06/Jun/08 3:07 PM We currently run Confluence 2.7.0. Do you have any approximate date for the 1.4 release? cheers, Igor
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Igor Minar added a comment - 06/Jun/08 3:47 PM

oops.. it's actually Confluence 2.8.0 not 2.7.0.

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Igor Minar added a comment - 06/Jun/08 3:47 PM oops.. it's actually Confluence 2.8.0 not 2.7.0.
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Chris Kohlhardt added a comment - 06/Jun/08 4:42 PM

We don't have a set date for the release. Hopefully very soon.

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Chris Kohlhardt added a comment - 06/Jun/08 4:42 PM We don't have a set date for the release. Hopefully very soon.

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  • Created:
    06/Jun/08 12:01 PM
    Updated:
    09/Jun/09 7:27 PM
    Resolved:
    11/Jun/08 1:56 PM