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Alt text by image purpose: a reading of the archived W3C WAI Images Tutorial pages
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What this guide covers
For anyone publishing illustrations, covers, character sheets or charts online who needs to write alt text. It sorts images by purpose and notes what each archived W3C tutorial page says. It is a reading of the pages at one archived commit, not tested, and the licence is not stated in the files.
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Guide title
Alt text by image purpose: a reading of the archived W3C WAI Images Tutorial pages
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For anyone publishing illustrations, covers, character sheets or charts online who needs to write alt text. It sorts images by purpose and notes what each archived W3C tutorial page says. It is a reading of the pages at one archived commit, not tested, and the licence is not stated in the files.
Useful starting points
- A purely decorative picture needs an empty alt attribute, not a missing one, and nothing should sit between the quotes.
- For a picture that works as a link or button, describe what happens when it is used, not what the picture looks like.
- Put the most important information first in alt text and leave out words like image or picture.
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