- From: <deborah.kaplan@suberic.net>
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 15:24:51 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
- To: Richard Orme <rorme@daisy.org>
- cc: Tzviya - Hoboken Siegman <tsiegman@wiley.com>, Charles LaPierre <charlesl@benetech.org>, "George Kerscher (montana)" <kerscher@montana.com>, W3C EPUB 3 Community Group <public-epub3@w3.org>
I worry about using cover alt as a delivery mechanism for metadata. In comics, there are frequently alternate covers, which are collectible in their own right. Describing the cover as "Title Ms. Marvel, Issue #17, Author: G. Willow Wilson, Cover alt #3" wouldn't be as informative in that context as actually "Cover alt #3 by Rachelle Rosenberg, Bruno holding a tiny Kamala in an erlenmeyer flask". Do we want to overload alt text in this way? It has a purpose, which is to describe images; the fact that in books the image is *often* just metadata doesn't mean it always is. Picture books, too, often have a part of the story which actually begins on the cover. Deborah On Thu, 6 Dec 2018, Richard Orme wrote: > What about other text that is on the cover image that is not otherwise included in the contents? > > For example: > "New and updated for 2018" > "With a foreword by Fred Blogs" > "Part of the essential MBA series" > "Winner of the Montana Book Awards" > or > "For 28 years she's hidden the truth. And now her world is about to fall apart." > > If this text is on the cover image, should it not also be in the alt? > > Richard
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