No upstream support for alt-text in Typst

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accessibility enhancement pandoc typst upstream

In addition, Pandoc's writer for typst does not seem to support alt-text which might be the main reason for Typst in Quarto not supporting this option.

echo '![Caption "some title"](image.png){alt="Alt text describing the image"}' | quarto pandoc -f markdown -t typst
echo '![Caption "some title"](image.png){alt="Alt text describing the image"}' | pandoc -f markdown -t typst

More generally Pandoc's writer does seem to allow only the height/width attributes.

Originally posted by @mcanouil in https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/13596#discussioncomment-14751354

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