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Re: Alt text for images

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From: Sandy Feldman
Date: Sep 21, 2020 7:42PM

An amendment to that earlier email - the "description field" *usually
*won't show up anywhere else. It turns out that if you have the
WordPress jetpack plugin installed and use the gallery the descriptions
will show up there. So - check!

Sandy


On 2020-09-21 6:51 p.m., Jeremy Echols wrote:
> It's worth noting that many CMSes let you reuse the same image in different contexts, but they also reuse the alt attribute. We run Drupal for pretty a huge number of our pages, and this is a constant problem. A general-purpose "stock"-like photo of a student can be used for so many purposes, and when the CMS tries to force a single alt text on you, it becomes a huge pain.
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> Hopefully large companies with hundreds of thousands of images have the staffing to describe those images in context, every time they're used. If not, it may be best to make sure the copy describes whatever the image is there for, and just give the images a null alt attribute (alt="").
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