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by petepete 2236 days ago
Alt text certainly wasn't intended for this kind of use. Screen readers don't cope with newlines in alt text particularly well, most just stop at the end of a line[0]. Also more care has to be taken when escaping the contents of the attribute, it's something people will definitely get wrong.

[0] https://developer.paciellogroup.com/blog/2015/09/short-note-...