Created attachment 204609 [details] Sample file To reproduce: 1. Open the attached sample file 2. Go to the View menu and disable "Images and Charts" Then observe that the image's placeholder frame now only shows the frame and a little icon, but does not show the image's Alt text nor its Description metadata. For accessibility review purposes, and also for performance reasons for folks like me who edit very long documents with large images, it would be great if we could see those alt text / descriptions as placeholder text inside the image frames.
Created attachment 204610 [details] Demonstration video As observed on: Version: 25.8.3.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 8ca8d55c161d602844f5428fa4b58097424e324e CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.17; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US Flatpak
Hi Jeff Fortin Tam, This is a feature request, not really a bug, but I can confirm that this “no description” behavior is consistent with the Windows Live and alpha versions of LibreOffice. Version: 25.8.3.2 (X86_64) Build ID: 8ca8d55c161d602844f5428fa4b58097424e324e CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (build 19045); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 620(Build:0) CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (build 19045); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded
+1 When the View -> 'Images and Charts' is toggled and just the wire frame place holder is shown, we currently expose a small icon in the upper left corner--looks to be the lc_insertgraphic.png for current icon theme as user set in Appearance. So we already respond in UI to the view mode change. Would think showing the image Name (thought we did at one point), but also as suggested the image's 'Text alternative' and 'Description' as assigned (and available via context menu -> Properties). It would improve a11y of documents, but would also improve scrolling performance. @Michael, this seems reasonable AT me.