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You should omit the description for this type of image, but always include an empty alt attribute. Some examples are website banners that have no text in them and other design elements.

If they are removed, the webpage would still make perfect sense. Decorative imagesĭecorative images' only value is aesthetic.

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So how do you know whether an image needs an empty alt attribute? The decorative/informative/active approach.įollowing is an overview of different types of images, and how to best describe them. These are two different things, so do not mix them up.

Alt text is the description enclosed between the alt attribute's quotes.Īll images need an alt attribute, but not all images need alt text.

Some images should use an empty alt attribute Here’s what I learned and what I’m now applying to the articles I write: 1.

I chatted with some members of the low vision community.

I spoke with practitioners in those fields, and.

This got me curious, so I started researching: And for the first time, it dawned on me that I’ve been writing alt text the wrong way. Ironically, the article was arguing for accessibility. Notice that the alt text does not communicate what the audit results are. A snippet from The Cutting Room Show, hosted by Tom Walker. Then two weeks ago, I watched Tommy Walker, an ex-Shopify senior content marketer and editor, critique an article for its alt text usage. What about this example? Source: Business Insider. If you close your eyes and someone reads out the words “eating apple heart disease” to you, does that in any way help you make sense of what’s in the image? Take the Udacity example earlier: Is this suitable alt text? Source: Udacity Nanodegree Marketing Course. And while it’s valid advice and may seem simple, it’s not.

When you ask them, most experts’ advice also boils down to: Describe what you see. Their overall advice? Describe what you see. We also learned about writing alt text and its importance. In this module, I learned about building easy navigation site structures, title tags, breadcrumbs, and meta descriptions-all the good stuff. Screenshot from the SEO module of the Udacity Marketing Nanodegree course. But my proper lesson began when I took the Udacity Digital Marketing Nanodegree course, which was also my first introduction to marketing. I first learned about alt text in high school while building websites. I should know because, for an awful number of years, I was one. Some are 3 characters long: Compose - results in - (mnemonic: 3 hyphens because an em-dash is very wide) and I guess some are even longer (though I don't know any of those offhand).There are many benefits to writing alt text for images, especially from accessibility and legal standpoints.īut most don’t know how to write alt text well. I don't know what that means, but maybe it refers to the length of the compose key sequence? Not all of the sequences are two characters. I've also seen somethings along the lines of level 1, 2, 3 and 4 Personally, compose sequences meet all my needs for typing English, French, and occasional special symbols (but not Japanese, of course). Note that you will see Multi_key in that file, which is the "official" X11 name of the key more commonly known as Compose. Check out /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose in particular which appears to contain one of the biggest collections. You can find the list of compose sequences in the various Compose files in /usr/share/X11/locale.

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IMHO that's certainly better than having to remember Unicode code point numbers! The compose sequences are meant to be easy to remember, such as + - for ± or e ' for é. This is both shorter and more mnemonic than Shift+ Ctrl+ u a 7 enter (you didn't mention pressing Enter but I had to do that do get it to work for me). You can use Compose s o (as well as a few other synonymous sequences) to obtain the character §.