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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 ...
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.
A screen reader such as Orca will read out the alt text in place of the image. [12] A text-based web browser such as Lynx will display the alt text instead of the image (or will display the value attribute if the image is a clickable button). [13]
This ensures that screen readers will read, and the mobile site will display, the image (and its textual alternative) in the correct section. This guideline includes alt text for LaTeX-formatted equations in <math> mode. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Mathematics § Alt text. Do not insert images in headings; this includes icons and <math ...
This is rendered inline, and the specified text is used as the image's alt attribute (alternate text for programs which cannot display images, such as screen readers) and as the title attribute (supplementary text, often displayed as a tooltip when the mouse is over the image).
This page in a nutshell: Alternative text is added to images by using the "alt" tag. Alt text is read by screen readers immediately before the image caption. The alt text: Is required for all images. If the image's caption is adequate to describe the image, the word "photograph" or "painting" or "sculpture" should be used as the alt text.
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)
All images need alt text for accessibility reasons, I am pretty sure it is because when one is using a screen reader it can read a description of the image. To do it, in the visual editor double click the image and a box should show up where you can type in alt text.