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A question for users of #altText. I'm currently writing alt texts for book covers in a webshop. These are text books for higher education, no fiction. Just repeating title and authors would be superfluous I guess. Does a short description of the cover image make you happy? Eg.: Book cover of "Introduction to global Finance", showing the skyline of a modern business district.
Or would that be distracting fluff and would just "Cover of [title]" be better? Or something else?
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in reply to Maaike

absolutely seconding not repeating any text at all already on the page. But also, yes, nine times out of ten the cover description is decorative in my opinion