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 <yanta...@posteo.net> wrote: > Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> writes: > > > I am inclined to change  to > >  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: > >  > >  > > 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. > > -- > Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, > Org mode contributor, > Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. > Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, > or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92> >