Alt text is a short written description of an image that describes the appearance, content and/or function of an image. Screen readers read the alt text aloud to website visitors, allowing them to ...

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 ...

Google’s John Mueller shared Jeffrey Zeldman’s Bluesky post reminding publishers and SEOs of proper alt text usage, including a link to the W3C decision tree for guidance. The most important takeaway ...

One of the most powerful ways we can improve the accessibility of our website is the creation of alternative text for images. Alternative text, or alt text, is a concise text description conveying the ...

Writing alt text can feel like a chore for those with a heavy workload. And yet alt text is necessary for SEO and accessibility. An alt text generator is a great option for those with high or complex ...

This is the second post in our Accessibility Tip series. If you missed the first tip about meaningful link text, I suggest you go review it because that tip is even easier to implement than what we ...

If you have not previously entered alt text correctly for images on your site, each time you open Canvas, choose one or two pages within your Canvas site and update the alternative text for those ...