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From: Erick Wilder
Date: Jul 31, 2025 1:30AM

I’d like to better understand whether the inclusion of directional cues
(e.g. top, right, left, bottom, etc) are important to be part of the image
descriptions. Also, if there’s textual content besides an image that
captures its contents (but not assigned to its alt attribute) could this
make any difference on the usage of directional cues?

Example: an image with empty alt text was used and there is text next to it
describing two people, using the wording “person on the left” and “person
on the right” - should this wording be avoided or is it advisable to
include them instead?

Could you t be that I may need 2 copies: one for the alt text and another
(similar) to be used as “caption” with different wording?

Looking for information online has mixed results and I thought of asking
this community. I appreciate your input.