Should you embed alt text inside image metadata?
a11y accessibility AltText exif · 7 comments · 600 words · read ~827 times.
Not everyone can see the images you post online. They may have vision problems, they may have a slow connection, or they might be using a text-only browser. How can we let them know what the image shows? The answer is alt text. In HTML we can add a snippet of text to aid accessibility. For example <img src="monalisa.jpg" alt="A painting of the Mona Lisa."> Most social networks will let users add alt text to help describe their images. Brilliant! But... People don't always add alt text when…
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