In the interim, you may want to check out the Access Aide Accessibility Helper plugin for Sigil. It will allow easy access and changes to image alt tags.
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Originally Posted by cmcclaflinprcvi
I'm not sure if I'm in the right place, apologies if I'm not. My organization remediates text based documents to create epub files for students with disabilities. We're now using DOCXImport to import word docs into Sigil.
When an image that does not have alt-text is imported there is no alt attribute in the resulting <img> tag in Sigil. Unfortunately when many screen readers (text to speech engines used by people with low or no vision) encounter an image with no alt-text they will read out the file name.
This issue can be worked around by adding alt="" to the image tag. We would like to propose that DOCXImport be modified to add this empty alt attribute to images from word that do not contain alt-text in order to improve the accessibility of the files produced.
Here is a simple 'citation' backing up this logic: https://davidwalsh.name/accessibilit...alt-attributes
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