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For example, the alt attribute on an institution's logo should convey that it is the institution's logo instead of describing details of what the logo looks like. [3] [4] On Wikipedia, alt text is provided in the alt parameter in the MediaWiki markup. Many templates, like {}, have parameters for specifying alt text. For images that link to ...
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 .
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 ...
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 ...
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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)
The requirement that alt text should not duplicate what's in the caption has been in this guideline for quite some time; see, for example , which says, "The alt text description should not duplicate information already present in the caption or the main text of the article." And the idea that the alt text shouldn't repeat the caption is not ...
The issue with that picture goes beyond alt-text and us discussing how best to write alt-text for it is akin to polishing a turd. -- Colin° Talk 16:38, 27 March 2010 (UTC) I think we do need to discuss it, because many articles are illustrated by fairly tangential pictures. Take a look at Learned Hand for example. (No alt-text to be found ...