Where is the "Alt Text" field in Word to add a description text?

On Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 6:26:37 AM UTC+11, Drew Keller wrote:
>
> If the docx reader does indeed extract that element, how can it be 
> included in the converted document?
>
> I'm converting docx to rst so maybe it is different, but I have set the 
> description field in Word's "Alt Text" Description panel but the alt text 
> and description text never comes through to the converted RST file.
>
>
> On Monday, February 6, 2017 at 4:29:42 AM UTC-5, John MacFarlane wrote:
>>
>> The docx reader extracts the alt element from the "descr" 
>> attribute of Word images (drawings etc.).  I'm not sure 
>> what you need to do in Word to ensure that this attribute 
>> is set, but maybe someone else here can help with that. 
>>
>> +++ Praats [Feb 05 17 18:58 ]: 
>> >   Hi, 
>> >   I've been converting docx files into the ePub format using Pandoc. 
>> The 
>> >   eBooks I am creating are for people who are visually impaired, the 
>> >   screen reader on the tablet reads out the text to the person using 
>> the 
>> >   tablet. 
>> >   When I add images, ideally the screen reader should let the visually 
>> >   impaired person know that there is an image, and describe the image 
>> to 
>> >   them. Which can be done using the "alt" attribute within the <img> 
>> tag 
>> >   when creating eBooks from a HTML document 
>> >   I wanted to know if there was a way by which I could add the "alt 
>> text" 
>> >   in the word document directly for every single image. As the people 
>> who 
>> >   will be using Pandoc to convert docx files into ePub files are not 
>> >   familiar with HTML tags 
>> >   Any help will be appreciated. Thank you! 
>> > 
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