minor request: media library remember no hyperlink

Thank you for the suggestion, Esmi. But I don’t want to remove the value. Everything that I want, the ‘add image’ already does in visual mode. I only want one less click, and one less thing to remember, when I post numerous little decorations that should NOT have a hyperlink… So I am not asking for a new capability. Just to make the existing capability a tiny bit smoother.

P.S. Blind people using oral readers might get real annoyed, I suspect, when they repeatedly bump up against unnecessary hyperlinks. (But I am not blind so I don’t know for sure.)

Thank you Esmi. Glad you know something about oral readers. Eventually I need to spend some time at accessibility sites asking questions. Although visually impaired people may be a minority, I believe the internet is an imporant window for them, and not what it could be.

But no, CSS cannot be used to post images any more easily than what I do, nor for the individual feel with which I do it. The Add Image interface is totally adequate and almost perfect.

But basically, even not considering oral readers, I just don’t want hyperlinks strewn about. But in fact, I ended up creating a dozen hyperlinked images before I realized what was happening. And I am no expert, but I am above average for bloggers understanding webdesign. Being able to run a site knowing nothing is mostly what WordPress is about, my opinion. So my respects to you, if you do not sympathize with my concern about unnecessary hyperlinks. But if you do sympathize, I cannot agree that telling people to learn proper CSS is better than a simple software tweak.

You can remove the hyperlink field. Just click ‘None’ under “Link URL” – I use that all the time, works fine.

Yes I was saying that Ipstenu. And honored to have you here. But please understand, I posted a dozen hyperlinks before I understood what was happening. And it might seem silly to you, but it would just be nice if I did not need to “remember” to push the “none” button for hyperlinks.

And I suspect thousands of bloggers do not come this far in their understanding. The Add image make a hyperlink by default. So it’s done. Why?

You should always add a title to an image for good HTML, which will make blind visitors happy 🙂 .

PS–oops i think you are right. Title yes, but alt text no! will do!

I got confused when I saw the words “the earth” floating in my page. Took awhile even for me to figure out “what on earth” that was about. But that is “alt text,” not title.

As for title–I was just slightly annoyed at the hover effect, seems annoying and unnecessary for decorations. But yes, now I understand this adds interest for blind people, and generally not even noticed by ohers. So I will put it back in! Thank you Ipstenu.

But to hyperlink images by default–and not even be able to adjust that default, is not the best! As I still think, and as I asked for here, primarily.

(P.S.–ESMI now says that nonvisual readers do NOT like unnecessary title tags. (See below.) So I am reversing the decision to put them in!)

Once you push it, it should remember your preference for none. Mine does.

Aha! So we actually agree!

But no, my add image -> Media Library does not remember “none” for hyperlink. I tried both ways: “save all changes” and also “add to post.” WordPress 3.2.1 with Weaver 2.2.6.

(IIRC, surveys show that more people want it linking by default, so there we are)

I am not arguing with that! Just saying, we should be able easily to change that default. And according to you, we ARE able, the media library DOES remember…

So if my “none for hyperlink” is still not working tomorrow, thank you for the tweak references! Will do. I will report here again if I am unable to fix it with your references. Thank you!

Um… not always. Many JAWS users run their software in non-verbose mode – which ignores all title attributes.

Aha! An unexpected ally. So I was right the first time? Thank you Esmi. In addition, I find it especially refreshing whenever someone says a convention is wrong, especially when they are clearly right.

I was just about to go back and put in unnecessary “Title” attributes. Guess I will leave them out.

P.S. I would LIKE to leave the “title” attribute blank. But no can do. the media library fills it back in. So I am putting a period. (.) I hope this is not annoying to oral readers? But about the best I can do. If I erase the period, then next time the media library fills in the name.gif.

This makes me feel a bit like I am rolling a stone uphill. It may be a small thing, but the advantage of computers is to adapt to people, not people to computers. This world ignores that fact too often, my opinion.

If you have important info that you need to relay to screen reader users, then use the alt text. That’s what it is there for.

Sorry, I think I disagree here. The Mozilla/firefox people are very adamant about using “proper” title attributes. That’s why firefox does not show tooltip unless you use Title. For important info, use title, not alt. Alt is only to explain what should be there, if it does not show up, or for oral readers. I am not sure, but think maybe Firefox people are correct.

By the way, I try to include numerous h3 tags to summarize each paragraph. If everyone did this, I think oral readers could be set to read only h3 tags and thus quickly get the entire sense of a page. Great for search engines too.

Meanwhile for visual pleasance, I use custom CSS to make h3 look like any <p>. It’s just traditional journalism to try to summarize each paragraph in the first sentence. Online media is less space-limited and breathes better with a few extra spaces. So the traditional “first sentence” of paper media becomes a one-word paragraph in my blogs. Excellent journalism and excellent SEO and potentially excellent for oral readers, in my opinion. Maybe this is not a convention now but I think it should be. Just my idea.