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 |
When you output your report in HTML format, the Alternative Text property
value is inserted into the ALT
attribute of the IMG
tag.
To create accessible PDF report output, run the report with ACCESSIBLE=YES
from the command line (default is ACCESSIBLE=NO
).
If there is a hyperlink defined against the image object, you can also use the Additional Hyperlink Attributes (HTML) property to generate a status line of information.
SRW.SET_DISPLAY_NAME
PL/SQL procedure will continue to change this value for backward compatibility.
<IMG LONGDESC="ThisImage.html"
ALT="This is an image"
SRC="image.jpg"
/>
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)
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