> Hi again & sorry for the confusion.
>
> I was just trying to make you aware that ox-latex.el will
> translate
Maybe ox-html can do something similar too. I thought you already added
it based on:
> It maps 1:1 to the HTML <img alt="blah blah"> and the (newer)
> LaTeX \includegraphics[alt={Blah blah}]{image.png} notations.
It would be best to implement this in ox-html after merging
org-latex-preview, which is hopefully close to happening. The ways to
do this before/after the org-latex-preview patch are quite different.
Karthik
>
> #+ATTR_LATEX: :alt This is what a screen reader will read
> [[image.png]]
>
> to the following LaTeX.
>
> \includegraphics[alt={This is what a screen reader will read}]{image.png}
>
> Best, /PA
>
> On 25/09/2026 07:58, Karthik Chikmagalur wrote:
>> Hi Pedro,
>>
>>> just to avoid confusion:
>>>
>>> ox-latex is using :alt for the descriptive text added to images in
>>> accessible PDF documents:
>>>
>>> #+ATTR_LATEX: :alt This is what a screen reader will read
>>> [[image.png]]
>>>
>>> It maps 1:1 to the HTML <img alt="blah blah"> and the (newer)
>>> LaTeX \includegraphics[alt={Blah blah}]{image.png} notations.
>>
>> I just tried this from the main branch, with "make repro", and this is
>> not what I see in HTML export.
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> #+title: Some title
>> #+options: tex:dvipng
>>
>> This is a test.
>>
>> #+attr_latex: :alt This is alt text
>> \begin{equation}
>> x = y + 2
>> \end{equation}
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> The alt-text of the generated png image is the text of the LaTeX
>> environment itself.
>>
>> I also tried
>>
>> #+attr_latex: :alt "This is alt text"
>>
>> with the same result. Actually I cannot find where in ox-html.el or
>> org.el this processing from "#+attr_latex: :alt ..." to the HTML image
>> alt text is supposed to occur.
>>
>> Karthik
>
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