I think Discourse is already support this feature…

[image] Lee533: I tried that, but there isn’t have any effect. That’s because the method described by @tomtjes only changes the <img alt="…"> attribute – the text used by screenreaders and other devices that cannot display the image. What you are looking for is something to change the “Disco…

The filename should describe the image. If it does not, rename the image and re-upload it. image.jpg could be anything, but … picture-of-farrah-fawcett.jpg [picture-of-farrah-fawcett]

Do you mean something like this? https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown-syntax-how-to-adding-title-to-image/16563/16

I tried that, but there isn’t have any effect. [there isn't have any effect] @codinghorror

So, given the accessibility requirements that are (rightly, IMO) being enforced these days, I’m finding it hard to believe that the only way to add an image description is by renaming the file before uploading, or futzing with markup or html code. No problem for me, but if you think any of my routin…

[image] DrBB: Surely there’s some way to do this via a field in the upload path? At the moment you either have to edit the filename, or edit the markdown/html [image] DrBB: most of our members would be happy to add an alt-description if the upload process included a field for that, there…

[image] awesomerobot: Just thinking out loud at this point. Adding to that as well :slight_smile: Namely, whatever the mechanism will be to enter the image description in a user-friendly way, it would be great if the final HTML output would use the semantic HTML5 tag for an image caption: <f…

Comment ajouter une description aux images téléchargées ?

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sam (Sam Saffron) Avril 3, 2019, 5:54 11

Supporting this at the HTML level should be straight forward but I worry about diverging from CommonMark here.

Perhaps open a topic to discuss it there? https://talk.commonmark.org/

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