Forum: Alt Text img accessibility added input HOW?

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This forum use “Discourse” which has 3 formatting options:

  • markdown
  • BBCode
  • HTML

See: https://meta.discourse.org/t/supported-formatting-in-posts-markdown-bbcode-and-html/239348 for more information’s.

I personnaly use Markdown. Markdown has diferent implementations and the one used by Discourse is Markdown-it, see the Markdown-it reference. In this demo, check the code of the Minion image and the corresponding ouputs.

Minion
Minion896×896 27.5 KB

So to add an alt attribute, use this:

![Minion](upload://ffEWnsYwNcTVTWtqOnTy8F4ppcj.png)

The format is:

![alt](url)

But, according from what i’ve read from your previous posts, the alt attribute won’t be sufficient. I believe it’s supposed to be a small text description with meaningful information. So you have two other solutions:

  • leave the alt attribute empty
  • leave the alt empty and add a textual description in your post.

To give you a concret example, in your post https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/gui-guide-i-hate-24-hour-clock-time/24743, this is what I would do:

  • add an alt corresponding to the date and time in the first image : Thu 29 Feb, 00:05
  • leave it empty in all the other images because your text is already explaining it
  • expect for the last screenshot where the new date and time is necessary to fully understand your guide
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