Lewis — who identifies as someone with low vision, and uses a cane and other assistive technology in her everyday life — published a frequently cited guide on writing alt text for our collective online humor back in 2018, and has since kept her highly-informative How-To updated for all....
How to write alt tags or alt text Now that you know the meaning of alt tags, let’s talk about writing them. There’s a right and wrong way to write alt tags. You should aim to provide just enough information to help people visualize the image without actually seeing it. Here are so...
After you’ve written the alt text for your image, you need to actually add it to your document or app. If you’re directly writing HTML code, it’s usually quite straightforward – and this guide for improving accessibility with alt text gives a great overview. Today, this blog post wil...
Consider the photo below. The alt text “Woman doing yoga” would be appropriate in many contexts. But in a workout guide, a detailed description of the woman’s pose could be necessary. When writing alt text, think about how you’d describe an image to someone in a phone conversation. ...
Writing Alt Text in Practice Consider, as an extended example, the image used for Aesthetics for Birds’ guide,What to Read on Art, Aesthetics, and Disability. It’s a marvelous painting made of the late Susan Nussbaum by the artistRiva Lehrer. ...
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If visual formatting is so important, then create a visual caption under the graphic or build the text into the body text/narrative portion of the document. Here's a great free guide to writing Alt-text published by the Social Security Administration: https://www.ssa.gov/accessibili...
Manually view and edit alt text, or approve automatic alt text: Right-click an image, chart, or other object, and selectView Alt Text. Tip: On theReviewtab, you can select theCheck Accessibilitydrop down and chooseAlt Text. In theAlt textpane on the right, edit or...
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For website owners, success depends on welcoming visitors to an environment that really works for them. Web accessibility standards, including the creation of alt text, ensure that your welcome is more inclusive. Investing the time in writing helpful, optimized alt text is both a good business ...