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Feature wish: support alt-text for accessibility #93
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[-]Support alt-text for accessibility[/-][+]Feature wish: support alt-text for accessibility[/+]on May 25, 2026 Ping?
Pong! The
\imageflushcommand already takes an optional argument. Attributes to the resultingIMGelement can be given by this optional argument. I am not sure I understand your example, as there is no default "image" environment, but a "toimage" environment. In any case, you can try:\begin{toimage} ... \end{toimage} \imageflush[alt="Schematic of a 4-bit adder"]Having hevea to use the alt key of
\includegraphicsto generate alt text is more involved.OK for using optional argument to
\imageflush. I use thetoimageenvironment wrapped in a custom environment of mine, so I could put the optional argument on the environment itself.\includegraphicssupport for alt-text would be nice, however.
Under pressure from publishers who need to meet accessibility requirements, LaTeX is getting some support for adding alt-text to images and other graphical elements:
alt={...}parameter to the\includegraphicscommand;\Descriptionmacro that can be used along\captionin figures. (Not in standard LaTeX yet, but in the ACM class files at least.)For example:
Could we have some support for alt-text in Hevea? I'm thinking of the
altparameter toincludegraphics, and perhaps an option to theimageenvironment: