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alt text

nounB2Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

Alt text is a written description of a picture for those who cannot see it. Add alt text.

It should say what the picture shows, not that it is a picture. Good alt text is short, and a decorative image is better given empty alt text than a description.

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Definitions of alt text

  1. 1nounalt textA written description of a picture for those who cannot see it.B2

    “The alt text just said image, which helps nobody.”

alt text is a description.

Where it comes from

Short for alternative text, from the alt attribute in HTML, which has been part of the standard since 1993.

Short for alternative text. It is represented in HTML by the alt attribute.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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