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Alt text is used instead of an image (or video) in situations where the media 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.
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 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 ...
Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system built around user-generated content and games, [1] [2] officially referred to as "experiences". [3] Games can be created by any user through the platform's game engine, Roblox Studio, [4] and then shared to and played by other players. [1]
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:
In the case of Main Page images, the alt text is automatically made exactly the same as the image title, so where the latter is descriptive enough, there's no need for additional alt text. If the alt text provided is different from the caption, the screen reader will typically read the alt text and not the caption.
Alt text is intended for visually impaired readers. Often the caption or article will describe the image adequately, and where this is the case you can write alt=caption or alt=see adjacent text. If additional alt text is added, it should be a succinct description that complies with the content policies; see WP:ALT for more
In other words, the "it is a link to further information" (i.e. a link to the file information page) is something all images have in common, but the alt-text for an image is part of the page (not the image) and helps to integrate the image into the page it is being used on (i.e. this image is being used here for this reason, and [where it helps ...