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An example of alt attribute text being displayed in place of an unavailable image, with the underlying HTML displayed below it The Wikipedia article for Wolf on the Lynx web browser, displaying the text of the alt attribute in orange in place of the images. The text in the alt attribute is used to replace the image when the image cannot be ...
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. The alt text is read by screen readers before the caption, so avoid duplicating the caption.
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 large amounts of caption text, use text-align:left; to make it left-justified. Alternate text is optional but recommended. See Alternate text for images for hints on writing good alternate text. To have some text to the left of an image, and then some more text below the image, then put in a single <br clear="all">.
Align the top of the image to the top of the text. This is often a bit higher than the top of a capital letter, because of ascenders in letters like lower-case "h". [[File:Flag of Hungary vertical.svg| text-top |20px|link=|alt=]] Align the bottom of the image to the bottom of the text.
The actual alt text for the displayed image will be one of the following, in order of preference: The explicitly requested Alt, if any; The explicitly requested Caption, if the image type has no visible caption; The empty string, if there is an explicitly requested Caption and the image type has a visible caption. The image file name if there ...
On pages with infobox images (see Christian Conventions infobox at the top as an example), the image from the infobox does show a tooltip with the alt text in IE8, while the other images in the article, which all have alt text, show nothing. A few days ago, IE8 with the option to expand alt text enabled, was showing text for all images.
Ah, I see you said, "I can see no place at all for captions on merely decorative images - and tells us that decorative images should have null alt text (|alt="")." I just edited the page to make this more clear. All images should have alt text. Decorative images should have alt="" so that a screen reader never reads the filename.