One of the most powerful ways we can improve the accessibility of our website is the creation of alternative text for images. Alternative text, or alt text, is a concise text description conveying the ...

Alternative text, often called "alt text," is a text description used for non-text elements, such as images, to convey the same information to users who may not be able to see the visual content. This ...

Alternative text, or "alt text", is a written description of the visual content in an image. It is typically one or two sentences long, and should convey any important visual information. For example, ...

Making your online content and social media profiles accessible to the majority of people stumbling across your posts is an intentional practice. From Instagram and Twitter photo descriptions to ...

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Images are used to convey information, act as decoration, and to enhance the message of written content. However, for users who have vision problems or for people who have turned images off to save ...

Screen readers can announce alternative text (or alt text) for images to help ensure that all users can have an equivalent experience. When you add an image to a document, it is your responsibility to ...

Image alt text is important for accessibility and beneficial for SEO. But if you have lots of images on your website, manually writing alt text for all of them will be time-consuming. This article is ...

Google’s John Mueller and Lizzi Sassman discuss creating image alt text that’s good for those using screen readers, briefly touching on what to do about decorative images and how it’s tricky to write ...

Alt text is a short written description of an image that describes the appearance, content and/or function of an image. Screen readers read the alt text aloud to website visitors, allowing them to ...

If you have not previously entered alt text correctly for images on your site, each time you open Canvas, choose one or two pages within your Canvas site and update the alternative text for those ...