Mastodawn

I’m curious: Did people/apps ever attempt to bundle alt text with the image as metadata? (Like EXIF?)

That feels like the right place to put it, so then it could be read by apps/browsers, and also travel with the image on save etc. Rather than specifying it as out-of-band text like we do today.

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curche 4d ago

@mwichary
There's an open feature request tracking the same

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14903

Pre-polulate the image alt text field from the description field in EXIF metadata · Issue #14903 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch When a user is uploading an image file, any text from the Description field in the EXIF Metadata could be pulled to pre-populate the alt text field. Motivation As the description field serves...

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curche

@mwichary
(I subscribed to it when I saw a similar discussion a while back, sorry I don't remember the toot)