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From: Howard Kramer
Date: Mar 4, 2019 8:35AM

Thanks Glen.

On Monday, March 4, 2019, glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> > > > >


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Howard

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