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For those of us building accessible web sties:

1. Would it be possible for the Photo to Web interface to provide access to the HTML alt text? This way our blind users can have a description of what the rest of us "see" in the picture, in addition to the title, caption, and story.

I don't want to just use the Story section for the description, because this would be boringly redundant for the sighted users.

2. How about a Hidden Default, like Andrew provided in Create, to specify a language other than English?

Thanks.

That's the first request for an alt text tag in 7 years, so I'm happy to add the capability as a hidden feature - for most people - the size of the download and the title are adequate (and automatic).

Here's what's new in today's build that you can download here:

Oct 21 2004
- Hidden feature to set language in Web Page Output, by default, it's EN (English)
Example for Spanish:
defaults write com.stone.PhotoToWeb WebLanguage SP

- If you add an "AltText" key/value pair by editing a .album file in TextEdit (did you know that our file format is plain english?), it will be honored when the HTML is created and preserved when the album is saved. This allows you to assign some arbitrary "Alt" tag text to each photo and its thumbnail.
Example: