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Laberpferd

@stefan @AlinaLeonova
I am strongly on the opinion that "alt text" itself is the wrong solution

What i mean is, i would be strongly prefer if the standard would be to have much more "normal" text here like 1k or more bytes, and then this one text just describes everything including the picture

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Stefan Bohacek replied to Laberpferd

@Laberpferd Interesting idea!

Personally I prefer the image description to be "with" the image, but I'd love to hear from folks who actually use screen readers, if this makes a difference to them.

Also, interestingly, there is a way to embed the description in the image file itself, which would be great for sharing the same image via different channels, it's just not very widely used.

community.adobe.com/t5/illustr

@AlinaLeonova

@Laberpferd Interesting idea!

Personally I prefer the image description to be "with" the image, but I'd love to hear from folks who actually use screen readers, if this makes a difference to them.

Also, interestingly, there is a way to embed the description in the image file itself, which would be great for sharing the same image via different channels, it's just not very widely used.

David O'Brien replied to Stefan

The problem with this approach is the same image may mean different things in different contexts.

Exif data could possibly provide some sort of “default” or fallback alternative text but it still needs human curation.

You may find this helpful. I hope you do.

#a11y

design.scotentblog.co.uk/provi

@stefan @Laberpferd @AlinaLeonova

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