[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #47444: Deprecate the caption field from the media modal

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#47444: Deprecate the caption field from the media modal
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 Reporter:  andraganescu  |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement   |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Media         |    Version:
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:  2nd-opinion early
  Focuses:                |
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 While working on keeping authored captions in Gutenberg
 (https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/15004), I realised that
 having "attachment captions", a property of "caption" for the attachment
 entity, makes little sense (to me).

 A caption's role is to describe the figure **in context**. Alt text is a
 precise description of the image, which, yes, is common to all contexts,
 but caption seems to be directly influenced by where I use an image.

 Say I have a picture of a beautiful apple. If I use it in an article about
 how Apple stock is doing well, then I might caption it "Apple stock is
 ripe to sell". However, if I use it in an article about the way Magic
 Mouse is charging, I might caption it "Thank God Apple didn't design
 apples". In both cases the Alt text would be "Picture of a ripe apple".

 Can we, or is there at least a possibility, to deprecate having captions
 in the media modal attached to each image there?

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