Marcin Wichary6d ago

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.

Show threadNorm Tovey-Walsh6d ago
@mwichary That's how I do it. My workflow for publishing an image taken with my phone is: capture, edit, augment EXIF, push to S3, push to my photos site. My downstream weblog and Mastodon posting tools use the EXIF caption (IIRC) field as the alt text.
Show threadMarcin Wichary
@ndw Yeah! I like this.
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