Datepicker icon should have more descriptive alt text

[rdworth]

The datepicker alt attribute value is currently '...' This is not sufficiently descriptive as alternative text. From ​http://forum.jquery.com/topic/alt

[Assimilater]

Submitted pull request, changed default to 'Pick Date'. ​https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/pull/362

[Scott González]

I'm inclined to close this as wontfix. There's almost no chance of us landing something reasonable for all of our supported locales and this will almost certainly be handled in a different way with the rewrite.

[rdworth]

I think english is a much better default than no language at all. Even once we switch to another system, a reasonable translation system will not return an empty string if there's no translation found, it will return the untranslated string. So I don't see a reason to not do the same here already.

[rdworth]

maybe we should just default to 'date' as in input type=date. Imagine a non-english speaker with images turned off. Much better for them to see an input followed by the english word 'date' than an input followed by '...'

[vanderhoorn]

What about putting it in the regional files? Or is that not possible?

Another possibility would be to use the filename (without slashes and the file extension). So '/images/date_picker.png' would result in 'date picker', or something similar.

[Scott González]

My preference is for the button option to just go away, but a final decision will have to wait for the API redesign.

[dylanb]

@scott.gonzalez - in the interim, we could update the examples to use the buttonText option to set the text

[Scott González]

I've created a ticket for this: #9626. Do you want to send a PR? If not, I can land an update during the week.