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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@mwichary EXIF has an ImageDescription field that seems to be specifically for that purpose. I don't know if anything uses it

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@mwichary I recall seeing images retain alt text information when using the share sheet in Android but I can't find any info on it so take it with a grain of salt

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