pdonnafi

I know what alt is used for. Here is a better link:
https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H37.html

I think the confusion is over why you choose to render the alt text above the modal container when the anchor is not specified, and don’t render it when the anchor is specified. Either way you are not rendering my anchor image in the modal with the video iframe so why do you render the alt tag only when I don’t specify an anchor image?

Additionally, when I do specify a anchor image, you don’t render it with alt text in the page (I really need that for SEO). However, when I specify auto_thumb=”1″ you do render that image with alt text.

Here is my shortcode:
[video_lightbox_youtube video_id="CYD_9NSyYkg&rel=0" width="640" height="480" anchor="http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/my-image.png" alt="Gold"]

And here is what you render:
<a rel="wp-video-lightbox" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYD_9NSyYkg&rel=0&width=640&height=480" title=""><img src="http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/my-image.png" class="video_lightbox_anchor_image" alt=""></a>

Just seems inconsistent. Maybe you can help clarify. Thx.

This shortcode does not work, no alt text displayed above lightbox:
[video_lightbox_youtube video_id=”G7z74BvLWUg” width=”640″ height=”480″ anchor=”http://www.example.com/images/youtube-thumb.jpg” alt=”Title of Video”]

This shortcode does work, alt text is displayed above lightbox:
[video_lightbox_youtube video_id=”G7z74BvLWUg” width=”640″ height=”480″ auto_thumb=”1″ alt=”Title of Video”]

So there seems to be a bug. If you use anchor in shortcode the text is not displayed. If you use auto_thumb it displays just fine.