Commons talk:Structured data/Archive/2014/Development/Design
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One data element I think deserves consideration in the Structured data effort is alt text, (W:Wikipedia:Alternative text for images which is text to be read, say by a screen reader, for people with visual disabilities. Current dogma on Wikipedia is that alt text should on a per-article basis, with different text for each use of an image. But it seems to me a generic text description of an image would be a valuable default when article specific text is not available. I don't have any statistics, but my impression is that only a tiny fraction of articles now have alt text. By making provision for alt text in Structured data, in multiple languages, of course, I think we could provide better support for readers who can benefit from alt text. A corpus of alt tex might have other uses as well, say for searching image types.--agr (talk) 19:08, 3 November 2014 (UTC)