Advanced bg: Render the image alt text to sr-only <figcaption>

src/markdown/background_image/advanced.js

@@ -99,6 +99,13 @@ function _advancedBackground(md) {
                           {
                             tag: 'figure',
                             style: style.toString(),
+                            open: {
+                              meta: {
+                                // For getting better alt text, we should store
+                                // the reference of the original image token.
+                                marpitBackgroundSource: img.source,
+                              },
+                            },
                           },
                         ),
                       )
@@ -155,6 +162,34 @@ function _advancedBackground(md) {
       state.tokens = newTokens
     },
   )
+
+  // Renderer for advanced background image
+  md.renderer.rules.marpit_advanced_background_image_open = (
+    tokens,
+    idx,
+    options,
+    env,
+    self,
+  ) => {
+    const token = tokens[idx]
+    const open = self.renderToken(tokens, idx, options)
+
+    if (token.meta && token.meta.marpitBackgroundSource) {
+      // Try to render figcaption for background image
+      // (Image token after parsed has text children without Marpit keywords)
+      const figcaption = self
+        .renderInlineAsText(
+          token.meta.marpitBackgroundSource.children,
+          options,
+          env,
+        )
+        .trim()
+
+      if (figcaption) return `${open}<figcaption>${figcaption}</figcaption>`
+    }
+
+    return open
+  }
 }
 
 export const advancedBackground = marpitPlugin(_advancedBackground)

src/markdown/background_image/apply.js

@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ function _backgroundImageApply(md) {
                       })(),
                       url,
                       width,
+                      source: t,
                     },
                   ]
                 }

src/postcss/advanced_background.js

@@ -56,6 +56,18 @@ section[data-marpit-advanced-background="background"] > div[data-marpit-advanced
   margin: 0;
 }
 
+section[data-marpit-advanced-background="background"] > div[data-marpit-advanced-background-container] > figure > figcaption {
+	position: absolute;
+  border: 0;
+  clip: rect(0, 0, 0, 0);
+  height: 1px;
+  margin: -1px;
+  overflow: hidden;
+  padding: 0;
+  white-space: nowrap;
+  width: 1px;
+}
+
 section[data-marpit-advanced-background="content"],
 section[data-marpit-advanced-background="pseudo"] {
   background: transparent !important;

test/markdown/background_image.js

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { load } from 'cheerio'
+import dedent from 'dedent'
 import MarkdownIt from 'markdown-it'
 import { backgroundImage } from '../../src/markdown/background_image'
 import { comment } from '../../src/markdown/comment'
@@ -205,6 +206,25 @@ describe('Marpit background image plugin', () => {
       expect(figures.eq(1).attr('style')).toBe('background-image:url("B");')
     })
 
+    it('renders alternative text as <figcaption>, without Marpit specific keywords', () => {
+      const $ = $load(
+        mdSVG().render(dedent`
+          ![bg fit  The background image](A)
+          ![This is bg 20% w:40% xxxxx](B)
+          ![    bg      ](C)
+        `),
+      )
+      const figures = $('figure')
+
+      expect(figures.eq(0).is(':has(figcaption)')).toBe(true)
+      expect(figures.eq(0).find('figcaption').text()).toBe(
+        'The background image',
+      )
+      expect(figures.eq(1).is(':has(figcaption)')).toBe(true)
+      expect(figures.eq(1).find('figcaption').text()).toBe('This is xxxxx')
+      expect(figures.eq(2).is(':has(figcaption)')).toBe(false)
+    })
+
     it('assigns background-size style with resizing keyword / scale', () => {
       const markdown =
         '![bg fit](A) ![bg 50%](B) ![bg w:40px](C) ![bg 10% h:20%](D)'