MultimediaViewer does not seem to make any use of an image alternative text
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	JeanFred
	Apr 27 2014, 10:21 PM

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It is recommended that when used on Wikimedia projects images are given alternative texts − see http://enwp.org/WP:ALT

A user pointed out to me that MMV does not see make use of that, going as far as saying that it should be displayed too. I am not sure about this but let's discuss that.

For an example of image with an ALT text:
https://fr.wikipedia. org/wiki/Boite_de_conserve#mediaviewer/Fichier:Moneis_CNV00008.jpg

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https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64519

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:09 AM

• bzimport added a project: MediaViewer.

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JeanFred created this task.Apr 27 2014, 10:21 PM

Not sure about showing, but at the very least it would be reasonable to use it in the HTML and wikitext embed strings.

Also, maybe we could set the same alt text on the img element we display? Not sure if that would be actually useful.

• Gilles triaged this task as Low priority.Nov 24 2014, 2:44 PM

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• Gilles added a project: Multimedia.Nov 24 2014, 3:14 PM

Tgr closed this task as a duplicate of T75923: MediaViewer should preserve ALT attribute of the image.Jan 21 2015, 5:33 AM

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