[Files] Default Alt-Text on Uploaded Images

[ethomas48]

Upon image upload, the alt-text associated with that image is entered. If the image is uploaded in My Files, and alt-text is associated with the image, that alt-text would be the default alt-text anywhere the image is used throughout their Canvas account. In other words, for images that I use across courses, I should, again, only have to type the alt-text once. Specific use of an image should allow for modification of the alt-text for each use, but I should not have to re-type the correct alt-text over and over again as I reuse an image, especially one that was uploaded into the My Files area. Then, if you want to change the default alt-text for an image, you should be able to do that in the Files -> images area.

Why: I use several images repeatedly in my modules. Each time I use an image, I need to replace the default alt-text of the file name with a meaningful name. Over and over, I am re-typing the same alt-text for a given image. For one course, this was four images used 14 times: 56 edits to the default alt-text to make this course accessible.

As course accessibility becomes an accreditation issue, is there any reason why we would want to be force course developers to correct the alt-text for a re-used image over, and over, and over again? 

[dspiel]

Problem statement:

When an image is used within Canvas, the user needs to redo the image description each time it is used. With the new laws for accessible content it may be easy to miss the image description if it is used in many places. Anytime an image is used and the image description is entered, it should replicate and fill the in the information regardless if the image or page it is being used on is published or unpublished.

Proposed solution:

Once a description is input for an item it follows it wherever it is used.

User role(s):

admin,instructor,ta,designer