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 ...

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that text within an image's alt attribute is generally seen as text "as a part of the page where the image is embedded." If that text is within an H1 tag, then ...

AJ Wilcox reminds us not to ignore image alt attributes. They are easy to forget, he writes, but important for those searching in engines for information -- especially for the visually impaired. The ...