Maybe an option?

Saying "pandoc is in the wrong" doesn't do much to resolve the issue.

Despite my enormous love for orgmode, Pandoc is used a lot more widely for
scholarly publishing and interactive websites. See Quarto and Manubot.

On Tue, Apr 4, 2023, 11:46 Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:

> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
>
> > I am inclined to change ![img](url "caption") to
> > ![caption](url) for links without description (links with description do
> > not obey caption in org export).
> >
> > Any objections?
>
> Upon further investigation, I have found that our base MD reference we
> follow in ox-md is defining image syntax as the following:
>
> ![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg)
>
> ![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg "Optional title")
>
> https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#img
>
> Therefore, Org mode is doing everything right within the scope of MD
> specification we follow. Pandoc does not.
>
> In fact, looking closer at https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#images, I find
> it very strange that alt text is used as image caption, not actual
> title. In HTML, alt text is supposed to be displayed *instead* of the
> image if the image cannot be viewed -- a feature often used as the base
> of accessibility for blind users. See
> https://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/att_alt.asp
>
> Therefore, I see no bug on Org side.
> Canceled.
>
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