[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #28321: Media uploader confuses user with description, caption, alt and title, without explanation

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#28321: Media uploader confuses user with description, caption, alt and title,
without explanation
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 Reporter:  DavidAnderson  |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)   |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal         |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Media          |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal         |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                 |
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 After a decade using WordPress, I still scratch my head when confronted by
 the media uploader, with its offer for me to enter for each of my images a
 "Title", a "Caption", some "Alt Text" and a "Description".

 As a developer, I can just about figure that out - title and alt text
 correspond to the HTML attributes. Playing with caption shows that it adds
 a visual caption. Description? Not sure what that gets used for.

 Admittedly, I don't work a lot on content creation. I work more on
 internals. On the other hand, someone who does work on content creation
 might not have the knowledge of HTML attributes, so they might be worse
 off.

 There's no help that appears if you mouse around the labels, that explains
 what they're for.

 In summary: the bug is that there are four separate ways to describe your
 media upload, and no obvious link to any help to explain how these four
 are distinguished.

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