Alt-text of local image

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It seems that alt text of a local image won't be rendered onto HTML when this image is loadable. This means alt text information is complelely lost when transformed. Is it a bug or feature? In fact, I'm developing a plugin and want to store some information as alt text. It would be better if alt-text is not ignored.

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It looks like it is rendered into HTML:

Screenshot of an image's markdown, its rendered version, and the image in F12 developer tools. In F12 developer tools, the image has . In markdown, the image is defined as
Screenshot of an image's markdown, its rendered version, and the image in F12 developer tools. In F12 developer tools, the image has . In markdown, the image is defined as1349Γ—405 76.8 KB

Note that alt text is used by screen readers (in addition to being displayed when an image can't be loaded).

The W3C provides an explanation for when/how to use alt text.

Edit: Sorry for the late (and perhaps now out-of-context) reply! I didn't notice that the last post was 7-ish months ago!