No Alt text defined in Video Thumbnail

thatch10

Options within the template for the video type do not allow alt text to be defined for the thumbnail image under the video tab. Can you please add the capability for the alt text to be defined into the template.

If you look at the image of Harry Styles on the url https://ja-mood.demo.joomlart.com/index.php/en/videos/1-sweet-creature

The image identified below has no alt text and there is no place to add this into the article

Gallery-1448239304-harry-styles-ama-suit.jpg

Thanks in advance

Thatch

saguaros

Hi Thatch,

You can open the file: /templates/ja_mood/html/layouts/joomla/content/video_play.php

Line 75:

echo '<img class="ja-video embed-responsive-item" width="'.$width.'" height="'.$height.'" src="'.$img_thumb.'" />';

change it to:

echo '<img class="ja-video embed-responsive-item" width="'.$width.'" height="'.$height.'" alt="'.htmlspecialchars($item->title).'" src="'.$img_thumb.'" />';

thatch10

Sorry, I seem to have confused with my request. I believe that the code provided gives an alt text for the video thumbnail. It is the System - JA Content Type Media which in the demo is an Avatar field which does not include the alt text. This is used in the artist info as part of the template and is the image which I identified above. Apologies for any confusion.

Thatch

saguaros

thatch10

I thought you meant the thumbnail of video, sorry for the misunderstanding

But unfortunately, there is no way to override this to add alt tag for media field of custom field in Joomla. You can try temporarily solution here: https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/16071#issuecomment-437499749

thatch10

saguaros, thanks for suggesting the temporary solution, however the code appears to have been modified since the suggestion.

saguaros

thatch10

You can try to post the same question into Joomla forum for other solution.

Regards