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From: Laura Fathauer
Date: Jun 9, 2020 6:23AM

You can add an alt to an image in google docs. However, google mail
has yet to provide the ability to add alt to images in email when
composing. I've submitted a request to google to have them add that
capability.

Laura

On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 7:08 PM Murphy, Sean
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> You have two questions here.
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> Alt tags (alt text) is only for images. Office applications do have a means of applying alt text to images. I don't have the instructions on hand how to do this. You do not apply alt text to tables. Hence why you did not get a failure which is correct.
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> This also applies to Google Docs. If they have not built in the ability of applying alt tags to images, then it is responsibility of Google to fix this.
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