alt text for play button

  • Resolved skiingyac

    (@skiingyac)


    1 year, 9 months ago

    Google Pagespeed https://pagespeed.web.dev/ reports a lack of alt attribute on the play button. Can you add some alt text to avoid dinging a page’s accessibility score?

    --- misc_functions.php.bak      2023-02-08 11:52:32.658010207 -0500
+++ misc_functions.php  2023-02-08 11:52:56.174009669 -0500
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@
         $img_src = 'https://img.youtube.com/vi/'.$video_id.'/0.jpg';
         $anchor_replacement = '<div class="wpvl_auto_thumb_box_wrapper"><div class="wpvl_auto_thumb_box">';
         $anchor_replacement .= '<img src="'.esc_url($img_src).'" class="video_lightbox_auto_anchor_image" alt="'.wp_vid_lightbox_sanitize_alt_text($alt).'" />';
-        $anchor_replacement .= '<div class="wpvl_auto_thumb_play"><img src="'.WP_VID_LIGHTBOX_URL.'/images/play.png" class="wpvl_playbutton" /></div>';
+        $anchor_replacement .= '<div class="wpvl_auto_thumb_play"><img src="'.WP_VID_LIGHTBOX_URL.'/images/play.png" class="wpvl_playbutton" alt="Play Video"/></div>';
         $anchor_replacement .= '</div></div>';
     }
     else if($atts['vid_type']=="vimeo")
    • This topic was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by skiingyac.
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  • Plugin Support mbrsolution

    (@mbrsolution)

    Hi, can you share the shortcode here you are currently using?

    Thank you.

    Thread Starter skiingyac

    (@skiingyac)

    [video_lightbox_youtube video_id="xxxxxxxxxxx&rel=0" width="1280" height="720" auto_thumb="1" autoplay="1" alt="some text"]

    To be clear, the alt text provided in the short code puts alt text on the <img> tag for the video thumbnail itself, but the separate play.png <img> lacks alt text (see the diff I originally posted).

    Plugin Support mbrsolution

    (@mbrsolution)

    Thank you for providing more information. I have submitted a message to the developers to investigate further your request.

    Kind regards.

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