Add alt text support to card covers

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@gitbook/react-openapi	Patch
gitbook	Patch

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Summary of the deployments:

Version	URL	Status
Vercel	https://gitbook-v2-2galfpcng-gitbook.vercel.app	✅
Cloudflare	https://ced30468-gitbook-open-v2-preview.gitbook.workers.dev	✅

Test content

Site	2v	2c
GitBook	https://gitbook-v2-2galfpcng-gitbook.vercel.app/url/gitbook.com/docs	https://ced30468-gitbook-open-v2-preview.gitbook.workers.dev/url/gitbook.com/docs
E2E	https://gitbook-v2-2galfpcng-gitbook.vercel.app/url/gitbook.gitbook.io/test-gitbook-open	https://ced30468-gitbook-open-v2-preview.gitbook.workers.dev/url/gitbook.gitbook.io/test-gitbook-open

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Build	Status	Details	Updated (UTC)
customers-v2 (Inspect)	👍 Changes approved	1 changed	Oct 24, 2025, 1:18 PM
v2-cloudflare (Inspect)	👍 Changes approved	3 changed	Oct 24, 2025, 1:21 PM
v2-vercel (Inspect)	👍 Changes approved	2 changed	Oct 24, 2025, 1:20 PM

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Pull Request Overview

This PR adds support for alternative text (alt attributes) to card cover images, improving accessibility for users relying on screen readers. The changes update the image type definitions to include an optional alt property and propagate this property through the component hierarchy.

Key Changes:

• Extended image source type definitions to include an optional alt property
• Updated the Image component to accept and apply alt text from multiple sources with fallback logic
• Enhanced table record card cover processing to extract and pass through alt text values

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 6 out of 7 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

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File	Description
packages/gitbook/src/components/utils/Image.tsx	Added alt property to image source types and implemented fallback logic for rendering alt text
packages/gitbook/src/components/DocumentView/Table/utils.ts	Updated cover processing to extract and include alt text from image records
packages/gitbook/src/components/DocumentView/Table/RecordCard.tsx	Passed alt text values to image sources for record card covers
packages/gitbook/src/components/DocumentView/InlineIcon.tsx	Removed obsolete TypeScript error suppression comments
package.json	Upgraded @gitbook/api dependency to version 0.146.0
.changeset/proud-kings-know.md	Added changeset documentation for the feature

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