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A screen reader will default to reading out the image filename when no alt text is available. [5] [6] The alt attribute can only contain plain text (no HTML or wiki markup such as wikilinks) without line breaks. The alt text is read by screen readers before the caption, so avoid duplicating the caption.
The alt attribute is the HTML attribute used in HTML and XHTML documents to specify alternative text (alt text) that is to be displayed in place of an element that cannot be rendered. The alt attribute is used for short descriptions, with longer descriptions using the longdesc attribute .
For example, the character é (Small e with acute accent, HTML entity code é) can be obtained by pressing Alt+1 3 0. First press the Alt key (and keep it depressed) with your left hand, then press the digit keys 1 , 3 , 0 , in sequence, one by one, in the right-side numeric keypad part of the keyboard, then release the Alt key.
Alternative text (or alt text) is text associated with an image that serves the same purpose and conveys the same essential information as the image. [1] In situations where the image is not available to the reader, perhaps because they have turned off images in their web browser or are using a screen reader due to a visual impairment, the alternative text ensures that no information or ...
Alt + D. Select the URL in the address bar of your browser. Alt + F. Open the File menu of your program. Alt + F4. Close the open program. Alt + H. Open the help menu. Alt + U. Change text to ...
Otherwise, (if the image type is unspecified or is "frameless"), this text is used for the link title provided the link has not been suppressed with "|link=", and also for the alt text provided an explicit alt=Alt has not been supplied. The actual alt text for the displayed image will be one of the following, in order of preference:
For codes from 0 to 127, the original 7-bit ASCII standard set, most of these characters can be used without a character reference. Codes from 160 to 255 can all be created using character entity names. Only a few higher-numbered codes can be created using entity names, but all can be created by decimal number character reference.
The page is titled "Alternative text for images". The focus should be on alt text examples and how to properly write alt text, not on what alt text sounds like in screen readers, and I disagree that they were difficult to apply, the more examples you have to learn from the easier it is, at least for me. -- œ ™ 22:26, 31 December 2010 (UTC)