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Re: alt text in gmail

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From: glen walker
Date: Mar 4, 2019 8:03AM

Nice idea but it didn't work for me just now. I tried both Outlook and
Word (which are generally the same). I added alt text via format picture >
layout & properties > alt text > description, then copy/pasted the image
into a compose gmail editor. It ends up with alt="image.png", which is
nothing like what I had. If I select the image, while reading the email in
gmail, it pops up just the image and the alt is now "Displaying image.png",
so at least it's trying to modify the alt a bit when doing something with
it, you just can't specify it yourself.

What did work but it is not a reasonable workaround is when composing the
gmail, I brought up the code inspector, found the image, manually set the
alt attribute by modifying the html directly, then hit send. It retained
the alt but only in the original message. If I selected the image to bring
up the image viewer, the alt reverted back to "Displaying image.png"
instead of "Displaying <my custom alt>". But the original email still had
my custom alt.

When I looked at the official gmail discussion forum (
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/gmail), someone had asked
about this feature a year ago but there was no progress on it. The topic
seems to be locked. I couldn't add to the discussion.

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 6:34 AM Lisa Snider < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I tried this about a year or so ago. I added alt text to an image in
> Outlook and then copied and pasted it, and I believe it stayed with it.
> That may, or may not, work today.
>
> Cheers
>
> Lisa
>
>