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Alt text helps visually impaired people who use screen readers to help them surf the web. It tells them what is in an image, helping them understand the full meaning of a web page. Alt text can also help hearing-impaired people understand what an audio file is about, and help them decide whether they want to "listen" to the entire file, using appropriate software. | Alt text helps visually impaired people who use screen readers to help them surf the web. It tells them what is in an image, helping them understand the full meaning of a web page. Alt text can also help hearing-impaired people understand what an audio file is about, and help them decide whether they want to "listen" to the entire file, using appropriate software. | ||
| − | Alt text can also help boost a web page in search results. Search engines can't " | + | Alt text can also help boost a web page in search results. Search engines can't "see" an image, but they can "read" the alt text to determine what an image is about. If alt text is well written with appropriate [[Glossary/Keyword|keywords]], it can help the page it's on rank well for those keywords. |
This is what an image description looks like in HTML: | This is what an image description looks like in HTML: | ||
Revision as of 22:30, 4 January 2011
The terms "alt attribute" or "alt tag" are also used to refer to alt text.
For more information on alt text, read: