Brendan Quinn
@brendanquinn.bsky.social
Managing Director of IPTC, the technical standards body for the news media industries. Australian, lived in UK for 15 years, now living in Tallinn, Estonia.
As another person who worked on the IPTC standard, I agree that alt text should be contextual if possible. But are you saying that multiple alt text fields would enable that? (FWIW we also have an Extended Description (Accessibility) field, even though that doesn’t solve this problem)
March 16, 2025 at 5:46 AM
As another person who worked on the IPTC standard, I agree that alt text should be contextual if possible. But are you saying that multiple alt text fields would enable that? (FWIW we also have an Extended Description (Accessibility) field, even though that doesn’t solve this problem)