Not getting photo descriptions in Photos app

Sometimes that happens to me. I just deal with it. I use be my eyes or email to my PC and use jaws to get a great description.

I wander if iOS 18 will allow that.

When you add a caption to a picture, I have noticed that they are not being read aloud with voiceover, so, you're right about that. However, when you mark a photo as favorite, it should announce, favorite, beside of it, when you're scrolling through the album. You're not seeing that?
If you're on the photo that you want to be described in the camera roll, when you exit the Be My Eyes app by hitting the cancel button at the top of the screen, it should take you directly back to that picture. In your list of albums, there is an album for pictures that are your favorite pictures. Also, when you select pictures that you want to add to an album, let's say, vacation holiday, for example, go down to the share sheet, and there should be an option that says, add to album, then you choose the album that you want the pictures to be added to.

If you add the description in the mark up it is read out by voiceover. Don't have my phone to hand at the moment, but sadly the captions aren't voiced. It's a bit more involved, think you have to go to edit, add markup or something similar. Picibot can do this, though it is a copy of the file and leaves the original in your folder so it's quite easy to get multiples of the same photograph though with a variety of descriptions. I have asked the developer to create something that can batch describe images and put them in folders, but no luck so far.

The photos app is kind of a reck for voiceover. I can't even flick through photographs anymore, but thank you for the reminder as I'll add it to my beta feedback.

How are you doing your photo descriptions? For photos, I add a caption, select it, copy it, then turn off info, loThe cate the photo (where you get show details when you swipe down) and add the label with two finger, tap and hold. These labels speak in the library photos list. I don’t add the labels for videos, because on my phone at least, the label for the wrong video is often spoken. I add captions because I read somewhere that they’re supposed to be preserved with the photo when you export or email it. When I’ve emailed a photo to myself, and then saved it, I haven’t found this to be true. They were preserved, however, when I got a new iPhone. I started investigating what format the captions are stored in by analyzing pictures from iCloud with an app on the PC, But haven’t looked at that for a while. I think it stores the caption in at least a couple different standards.
From the library photos list, I can read the caption by rotating left once to more content, then swiping up. This is a pain, but it’s easier than opening the photo, selecting info, and reading the caption. I wish that captions were red automatically for photos that have no label because that rotor, up really slows things down.. The labels are not spoken in the Messages app in the message that you share the photo in, but I think the caption, and maybe the label, remain after sharing to another iPhone with iMessage after the photo is saved, or with AirDrop. While I’m writing about photos, I have tried to transfer photos to another cloud service to save space on my iCloud. I have found that if I transfer a photo to OneDrive, and then back again, the caption is preserved. I don’t remember about the label. Unfortunately, the caption is not readable on OneDrive. however, captions are not preserved if you back them up with Google Photos. Google Photos allows you to store a description, but it is stored using a different standard, so when you bring it back to the iPhone, the description is lost. I haven’t tried this with Google Drive.
I am using an iPhone SE third GEN on iOS 17.5.1.