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13 questions linked to/from Can we get rid of the default text "enter image description here"?
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Formatting Sandbox
Notes: Answers will occasionally be moved to the Sandbox archive when there are too many of them. When using them to report bugs, keep an eye on the post. You may also want to take a look at the ...
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Sandbox archive
This post exists purely to house answers formerly attached to the formatting sandbox. You can safely ignore it.
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Does Stack Exchange crawl websites?
I'm seeing the user agent Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; stackexchangebot/1.0; +http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/130398) in my web server logs. Why is Stack Exchange crawling my site? Where do I report any ...
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Thumbnail image on Stack Overflow
How can you thumbnail an uploaded image on Stack Overflow?
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What's the point in adding alt-text to an image?
When you add an image to a post via the helper bar, you get this: ![enter image description here][1] [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/ve8n0.png What purpose does the enter image description here text serve?...
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Encourage people to use alt text
People should be encouraged to use alt text when they upload images to questions or answers. Even experienced users with 110K rep have forgotten to do so at least one times. A tooltip would be ...
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Avoiding "enter image description here"
While reviewing first posts and low quality posts, I come across images liked the following way too often: enter image description here And this should come as no surprise, as this is the default ...
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Could image description be input in the Add Image dialog box while uploading images?
When uploading an image, could there be a field to input the caption inside the dialog box? This could work so that as the user waits for the file to upload, he could be typing the caption. Then ...
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Editing does not work for me anymore, but no warning at all [closed]
I am trying to make some edits to other's questions but my modifications won't be saved anymore. I have done some editing everyday since it is a "Social Service" and at the same time "Easy Money". ...
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Reuse image description (alt text) as hover tooltip (title) by default
As What's the point in adding alt-text to an image? explains, currently, image description text only shows when browsing with images disabled and as such, can't be seen at all (and thus is ...
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Image description not searchable or included in summary
I have a question on Skeptics.SE that prominently features an image. To improve accessibility and searchability I included the text from the image as the image description. This description is ...
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"Review your question": Add image description guidelines
When you use the image uploader, it creates something like this: [![enter image description here][1]][1] This text is invisible to most people in the preview and serves no obvious purpose, so many ...
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Block "enter image description here" [duplicate]
Soooo many people don't bother following the simple instructions filled in automatically for alt text (old stats). Posts are rife with "enter image description here" which leaves content inaccessible ...