Re: ALT tag document report?

["Russ Wyllie" <russ_wyllie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rick, thanks for the advice. I'm going to get a copy of FrameScript and 
try to use it to generate an ALT tag report.

What would it take to write a script that, for each anchored frame in a 
document or book, would output a line that contains the following?

- the page number where the anchored frame is located
- a tab character
- the ALT text or "none" if the anchored frame has no ALT text

Thanks for your help.

-Russ Wyllie

On Friday, September 6, 2002, at 04:01  AM, Rick Quatro wrote:

> Russ,
>
> You can use FrameScript to get the Object Attributes of anchored 
> frames. You
> could use a script to get all of them in a document or book and write 
> some
> kind of a report. You should first determine what you want your report 
> to
> include and what it should look like. Then I can tell you what it 
> would take
> to write a script to collect the information. Thanks.
>
> Rick Quatro
> Carmen Publishing
> 585-659-8267
> rick@frameexpert.com
> http://www.frameexpert.com
>
>> We're starting to use the Object Attributes dialog box in FrameMaker 7
>> to enter ALT tags for our graphics (section 508 accessibility
>> requirements). However, our editor, who doesn't typically touch our
>> FrameMaker files, does not want to edit the ALT text using the
>> FrameMaker UI. Ideally, she would like to see both the graphic and the
>> ALT text as part of a regular FrameMaker printout, or see the ALT tags
>> in a separate printout.
>>
>> I hoped that Adobe might have either added a print option to include
>> ALT tags or a generated list option that would output ALT text, but no
>> luck.
>>
>> Has anyone created a document report or an API client that outputs all
>> the ALT text in a document or a book? Any other ideas on a streamlined
>> way for editors and reviewers to see and review the ALT text?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -Russ


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