[SPEC] Shouldn't Alt-Text be standarized?

[Miguel de Luis Espinosa]

As I was reviewing the spec, following Jason McBrayer bit of advice, I came to this part


> "Any text following the leading "```" of a preformat toggle line                                                      
> which toggles preformatted mode on MAY be interpreted by the                                                         
> client as "alt text" pertaining to the preformatted text lines                                                       
> which follow the toggle line.  Use of alt text is at the client's                                                    
> discretion, and simple clients may ignore it.  Alt text is                                                           
> recommended for ASCII art or similar non-textual content which,                                                      
> for example, cannot be meaningfully understood when rendered                                                         
> through a screen reader or usefully indexed by a search engine.                                                      
> Alt text may also be used for computer source code to identify                                                       
> the programming language which advanced clients may use for                                                          
> syntax highlighting."     

Very nice, but what exactly do I put there?

``` ASCII-Art 
for ascii art? and why not ascii art or ASCII ART or...

``` code
for code?

``` poem
for poerty (let be me a bit cheeky here)

Is there a standard I am not aware of?

If it's up to every client designer then do I need to take a look to what every client programmer thinks is best?

I'd say that the ascii art bit is specially important. I've tried to check how my websites "sounded" though a screen reader and it was often a fine mess. So, I mean, imagine if your first experience of Gemini with all its promise of little else than text was somehting like "eee aa eee oou err comma comma dot ha ha" or something