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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] A graphical browser typically will display only the image, and will display the alt text only if the user views the image's properties, or has configured the browser not to display ...
On Wikipedia, alt text is provided in the alt parameter in the MediaWiki markup. Many templates , like {{ Infobox }} , have parameters for specifying alt text. For images that link to their description page (most images on Wikipedia), the alt parameter should not be blank, nor should the alt parameter be absent.
The purpose of the image, an icon, is to provide a link to the Commons search page. The appearance of the icon is not important, but its function is. By writing the alternative text in the "caption" field of the image markup, it is both the alt text and the link title. The link title appears as a tooltip in some browsers.
Zero or more of these options may be specified to control the alt text, link title, and caption for the image. Captions may contain embedded wiki markup, such as links or formatting. See Wikipedia:Captions for discussion of appropriate caption text. See Wikipedia:Alternative text for images for discussion of appropriate alt text. Internet ...
The alt text for an imagemap region is always the same as its title text; the alt text for the overall image is given in the first line of the imagemap's markup. The underlying image's native dimensions are 3916 × 1980, and the coordinates are given in these dimensions rather than in the 300px resizing.
The {{colored link}} template takes two parameters to function: the color of the link, the article being linked to, with an optional third parameter for alternative text to display as a piped link. {{colored link|orange|Canada}} → Canada {{colored link|#00F000|Page name to link|Alternative text}} → Alternative text; Or
At the moment, in the "alt=" text. This is not ideal, however. I wish that there was a way to decouple the "alt=" text from the link to the image description page. Graham 87 08:21, 21 March 2010 (UTC) Also, if you add "alt=" to image markup, the screen reader acts as if you never specified the alt attribute. Graham 87 08:24, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
Links should not be placed in the boldface reiteration of the title in the opening sentence of a lead. [a] Be conservative when linking within quotations; link only to targets that correspond to the meaning clearly intended by the quote's author. Where possible, link from text outside of the quotation instead – either before it or soon after. [b]