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Accessibility issue - preencoded.png as image alt

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Vic Bevilacqua

Hello! Most of my images gave been exported with the alternative text "preencoded.png", which is a big problem for screen readers if I forget to manually remove the descriptions. Is there any way to turn it off? Having empty alternative texts would be much better!

August 9, 2023

Jinson Johny

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Bug fixed in the latest version. The default alt text is now empty

Jinson Johny

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Jinson Johny

💯 agree with you... The support for alt texts on images will be implement in the next update. I'll post the progress here. Thanks for reporting this issue 😊🙌🏼

Vic Bevilacqua

Jinson Johny: Thank you so much! <3

Jinson Johny

Vic Bevilacqua: One question : I was thinking of filling the alt text with the layer name. Does that make sense?

Vic Bevilacqua

Jinson Johny: Hmmm that could work for people who already have an eye on accessibility. It might have the downside of generating several "Frame 212" etc audio instances for the less organized. (Also, for purely decorative images not having an alt is the best way to go!)

Vic Bevilacqua

Oops - I meant decorative images having an "empty alt", which means the screen reader will not describe that element (https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/decision-tree/)

Jinson Johny

Vic Bevilacqua: Okay. Makes sense. Then let's keep empty alt text for now and in future I'll add an option to toggle on/off. 'On' option would picks layer name by default (For the ones who really have an organized layer naming) and 'Off' will keep it empty and is the default state.

Vic Bevilacqua

To put it in context a colleague of mine who relies on screen readers needed a very old deck (made in Figma) converted into Slides for him, and... well he was a complete sport and laughed it out but at the same time it would be great if I could make his life a little bit easier while still being able to use this amazing plugin!