Trouble getting alt text to work... but only with one image

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The last image doesn’t have alt text for some reason. Any idea why? I’ve tried removing it from it’s spoiler container and removing various special characters from the description. It’s much shorter than the one before it. The other 2 images display alt-text appropriately.

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I’m still not 100% sure what’s going on here, but I think it’s this: for some reason, the “lightbox” feature only happens to images that are over a certain size (by default, 500px). So two of the images you uploaded meet this, but the third one doesn’t. The alt text is set (you can see it in the source, and I assume it would genuinely be readable for accessibility purposes), but it doesn’t automatically get the enhanced javascript stuff that the lightbox thing brings.

I don’t know enough about lightbox to know why it would be set up this way, maybe it’s simply that an image below a certain size doesn’t gain much by getting a modal popout. (and it’s a brand new feature for discourse, so searches aren’t bringing up too much). Also, I noticed it does appear work in preview, not sure of that either, maybe that’s a bug.

Reference: Some images don't lightbox? - ux - Discourse Meta

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Good to know! Accessibility was the main drive so as long as that works I don’t mind that it doesn’t have hovertext lol.

Thanks!

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