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, ...

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In this guide, you will learn about alternative text (known as alt text): what it is, why it is important for on-page SEO, how to use it correctly, and more. It’s often overlooked, but every image on ...

Tall hamburger with a hand reaching for it. The introduction to the article, surrounded by a collection of examples of alt text, displayed over blank boxes, arranged in a scattered formation.

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 ...

This is the second post in our Accessibility Tip series. If you missed the first tip about meaningful link text, I suggest you go review it because that tip is even easier to implement than what we ...

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 ...

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 ...

To see alt text in a completed PDF document, you'll need to use a screen reading app, which is an accessibility tool for visually impaired users. PDF documents should contain alt text for each image, ...

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 ...