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From: Sarah Ferguson
Date: Mar 13, 2019 8:59AM

I find Google to be very inconsistent with its accessibility. Some tools
are great, others are quite lacking. If I must put alt text in gmail, I add
a visible image description. Not elegant in the least...This doesn't seem
like the hardest fix for them if they change their priorities.

Sarah Ferguson
Web Accessibility Specialist



On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 7:35 AM L Snider < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Weird that I got it to work! It was actually almost two years ago and I
> remember trying a number of things...good to know that isn't the case now!
> Thanks for the tip on the code inspector, but geez why are we not able to
> do this???? It is 2019...
>
> Cheers
>
> Lisa
>
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 11:35 AM Howard Kramer < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > 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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