In 2010, a bug was reported in Chromium where Hebrew alt text rendered left-to-right when images were disabled. Unfortunately, there seems to have been no progress made on fixing this issue.
According to the specifications, text written entirely in Hebrew letters should be displayed right to left regardless of the dir
attribute settings. While some browsers may display correctly with dir=rtl
, Chrome does not seem to follow this rule for alt
text rendering. It appears that Chrome uses different routines internally for text rendering compared to normal text, making it difficult to apply directionality information. using control characters within the attribute value also does not solve the problem.