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Re: Alternate text for images having caption adjacent

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: May 29, 2014 1:23PM

> I totally agree with you Jared in regard with verbos, but my concern is
Consider If alt="" is used instead of "Image of or photo of Jared" in
alternate text, screen reader will not announce that an image of Jared is
available in the

Yes, this does get tricky. It really depends on the situation. For
example, a caption of me at a tweetup might state "Jon at the CSUN
tweetup". But the alt text might explain a lot more detail such as the
funny hat I'm wearing or the Got 508? T-shirt I'm wearing, etc. What the
image is conveying may very widely. For example, if my profile picture
shows me hiking as sighted person could infer I like or have been hiking
and a simple caption of "Jon Avila" wouldn't tell the user is blind and
visually impaired that information -- such information could be useful in
networking, etc.

Jonathan