Making your online content and social media profiles accessible to the majority of people stumbling across your posts is an intentional practice. From Instagram and Twitter photo descriptions to ...

Alt text is a short text description of an image published to the internet that can be read aloud by accessibility programs for the blind and visually impaired, including screen readers. But there's ...

Alternative text (or alt text for short) is a short description of a graphic that helps people with visual impairments fully understand the content of what's on their screen. Screen readers read alt ...

In this guide, you will learn about alternative text (known as alt text): what it is, why it is important for on-page SEO, how to use it correctly, and more. It’s often overlooked, but every image on ...

Want to make your social profiles accessible, too? Don't forget about the memes. Credit: Shutterstock / Photo Melon, Antonio Guillem The meme economy rarely falters, and as the impetus for much of our ...

Readers of a certain age may remember early e-books that had black rectangles in place of the images. (They were rendered as such because publishers had only obtained print rights to the images.) That ...

Twitter has had the ability to add alt text to your images for years, but if you don’t use a screen reader, you probably weren’t able to read what anybody else’s alt text says. Recently, though, the ...

To see alt text in a completed PDF document, you'll need to use a screen reading app, which is an accessibility tool for visually impaired users. PDF documents should contain alt text for each image, ...

Illustrator allows you to write on the path of your artwork like shapes that you create. You may have an image that you saved in any of the file formats, and you want to write around it. This may ...

The person asking the question wanted to know whether alt text was still relevant for search optimization. In order to understand the role of alt text for SEO it’s useful to learn the technical reason ...