Handling alt text with emailed images

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Title:
Handling alt text with emailed images

Area:
entries, images, post by email, accessibility

Summary:
Development (mostly Mark & Fu) intend to improve the workflow of posting images, and I'm the one tagged to post this bit for suggestions discussion. :) Specific to this discussion: adding alt text to a single image that is attached to an emailed entry. We call upon the collective creativity of the dw_suggestions community: how should it work?

Description:
The existing post-by-email optional/extra/advanced features are documented:

http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/emailpost?mode=help&type=optional
http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/emailpost?mode=help&type=headers

Should the alt text take the form of another "post" command at the top, like one of these two:

post-alt: image's alt text goes here
post-image: image's alt text goes here

Should it be done another way? If so, how?

Poll #13462 Handling alt text with emailed images

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 31

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Should be implemented as-is.
7 (22.6%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (6.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
22 (71.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)