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Alternative Text property

The Alternative Text property is one of the accessibility properties designed to make reports accessible to the disabled community when output to HTML or PDF. This property specifies text that displays in a popup or can be read by a screen reader as the cursor moves over an object in report output.

Applies to

Graphs, image objects (File Link boilerplate and fields with image source), boilerplate drawing objects (rectangles, arcs, lines, and so on)

Values

A text string not to exceed 256 characters

Default

Blank 

Required/Optional

Optional for paper reports, but required for accessible HTML reports

PL/SQL procedure

SRW.SET_DISPLAY_NAME

 Usage notes

Example

<IMG LONGDESC="ThisImage.html" 
     ALT="This is an image" 
     SRC="image.jpg"
/>

See also

Other accessiblity properties:

Headers property (HTML or PDF)

ID property (HTML or PDF)

Report Language property (HTML or PDF)

Table Caption property (HTML or PDF)

Access Key property (HTML only)

Label for Field property (HTML only)