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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Windows: Alt key codes. The alt keys (there are two of them) are easy to find on any Windows device—there’s one on either side of the space bar. It’s easy to make any accent or symbol on a ...
I would not make this a hard and fast rule, however. Twenty words seems inadequate to describe charts, maps and the like. However alt text should be concise. Yes, the detail in alt text should depend on the context of the image. "Portrait of Napoleon" would be a good alt text in the Amazing Race example.
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)
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 ...
Alt text for diagrams would often be a nightmare, for example File:Arthropod head problem 01.png would need alt text almost as long and complex as a summary of the Arthropod head problem, File:Mollusc generalized.png would need alt text about as long as the description of basic mollusc anatomy, File:Porifera cell types 01.png would need alt ...