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A proposed scheme for parsing preformatted alt text

easeout at tilde.team easeout at tilde.team

Sat Sep 12 21:40:33 BST 2020

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On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 06:11:53PM +0200, Katarina Eriksson wrote:

<easeout at tilde.team> wrote:

I think it would also be suitable to change the name from "alt text" to

something like "accessibile description".

Changing the name to something to do with accessibility is something I

agree with.

For what it's worth, when I suggested the name change I thought thatHTML IMG "alt" was the tooltip and "title" was the accessibledescription. But in fact that is backwards; alt text is the accessibledescription. So at this point I don't think a name change is necessary.I'm not opposed to renaming, though, if it would avoid repeating themisunderstanding I had.