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Re: alt text for Facebook images

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From: Jarrett Clark
Date: Jan 23, 2014 4:44PM

The caption you give a photo appears in the alt text in your timeline. The
photo in the lightbox does not have alt text, instead it uses
the aria-describedby attribute.


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E] <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> from what I can tell, you're not technically adding alt-text to the image
> but 'merely' giving it a caption, which 'could' serve the same purpose.
> But a caption and an alt-text aren't typically the same thing - could be
> the only way to make the best of a bad situation?
>
>