Alt Text, State of the Blog

Awareness of the outside world. Pick two. High services. Low density. Low taxes. Seen on the Internet as a Venn diagram wherein the center does not exist. Apologies for not noting the source.

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Photo of person walking

Photo by True Speed Photo, repost. [Feet On The Street]

As of 08 December 2024, I have been including alt text for my blog images. For example, the alt text for yesterday’s image, above, is Photo of person walking. Alt text is used by screen readers, as a text display if the image does not load, or if the reader has blocked images.

This is the best definition I found, “Alternative text is a textual substitute for non-text content in web pages.” WebAIM: Alternative Text. Page also has advice on choosing alt text.

BTW, I tried to run their accessibility evaluation on the blog, but it turned up an error message. Since my posts are mainly lumps of text, I figure it can’t be too impenetrable.

Do you add alt text? Do you use alt text?

Onwards!
Katherine

4 thoughts on “Alt Text, State of the Blog

    1. I think it’s more for complicated pages with lots of banners and buttons? Also for shorter social media where the photo is most of the message. My photo/media page makes it easy to do. I figure, why not.

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