Questions tagged [alt-text]
Text alternative for images and other non-text content that conveys the same message or meaning as the image. Text alternatives can be rendered as synthetic speech or Braille by a screen reader.
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Remove `[Text]` from the no-alt-text warning message
Feature request: Remove [Text] from the no-alt-text warning message.
Screenshot taken on https://ell.stackexchange.com/
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What does `[Text]` refer to in the no-alt-text warning message?
What does [Text] refer to in the no-alt-text warning message?
Screenshot taken on https://ell.stackexchange.com/
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Math mode in image alt text [duplicate]
I used math mode in an image's alt text. This had worked in the past, but now upon an edit, it is broken: the alt text now appears as a link after the image. See answer at What is the difference ...
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Why are there so many images with alt text "a busy cat" on the network?
While reviewing the results of my script that repairs broken images across the network, I noticed there are many images where the alt text is "a busy cat". It might be an older version of ...
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What percentage of images on SE have a meaningful alt-text?
As a follow-up question of Stop image upload completion from stealing cursor focus, I wonder what percentage of images on SE have a meaningful alt-text.
Edit: by meaningful, I mean useful.
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Stop image upload completion from stealing cursor focus
Upon image upload completion, the cursor focus is moved to the image tag (see example below). Feature request: don't move the cursor focus.
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Alt text overflowing the icons in top bar when avatar (profile picture) is broken
Consider:
In Firefox (with ad blockers enabled) the toolbar is rendered like this.
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Use "Review your question" for something useful: Encouraging accessible images [duplicate]
When you use the image uploader, it creates something like this:
[![enter image description here][1]][1]
This text is invisible to most people in the preview and serves no obvious purpose, so many ...
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Images in "Agility starts with trust" blog post have no alt text, making it less accessible
If we have any hope of making technology more diverse and inclusive, we have to make technical learning resources accessible to all.
That's a direct quote from "Agility starts with trust", ...
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Please catch no alt text in the automated question review process
When writing a question, you now have to submit the question to go through an automated review process before being allowed to post it. If the review was successful, it'll give you this message:
Our ...
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Alt text overlap for Top Network Askers with broken avatar
When a user's avatar is not available, and they're listed in the Top Network Askers in the right sidebar of https://stackexchange.com/, the alt text of the avatar overlaps the username or site name in ...
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Are there any particular characters or sequences that should never be put in an image description?
Answer(s) to How to upload an image to a post? (found in metaFAQ) explain several reasons why we should
replace the default "enter image description here" with something meaningful.
Are there any ...
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Issue with image alternate text in blog authors page
There is an issue with the <img alt in the Stack Overflow Blog - Authors page.
Today when I'm accessing the blog authors page in slow internet connection, I see the image alternate text is ...
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Can’t see long alt text
I’m on a network right now that blocks Imgur, and I noticed that long alt text doesn’t show. Instead I see a short, wide white rectangle with a grey border. Here’s an example that should show the ...
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If there's an image that's not really possible to describe, should I remove the default description?
Looking at this answer, there is this graph:
It had the default "enter image description here" text for the alt. However, I don't think that such a big image with so many datapoints shown is possible ...
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