Re: New fundamental test book and covers

I think that as Tzviya it is important to describe the author of the cover
and the title within the metadata. As an example, I have the case of a
plastic artist who donated her pictorial work for a non-profit book.

*Silvia Lifman*



El 6 de diciembre de 2018 a las 17:26:14, deborah.kaplan@suberic.net (
deborah.kaplan@suberic.net) escribió:

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