Tips

A couple of tips and tricks for picking alternative text, good text alternatives.

So you want always to be concise and as concise as possible, but as long as needed.

So sometimes that means really long alternative texts and that's okay.

There is no limit to the length of alternative text.

You should be choosing the appropriate alt text by trying to understand what does the

image do on the page and then how is it used in this context.

Important information should always be on the beginning because alternative text, how

it works, it doesn't let you like skip through it or reread information.

So the most important like big picture, pun intended, I guess, big picture information,

put that to the front and then put like further information to the back.

Yeah, just use punctuation how you would usually use it in sentences and leave out anything

that is superfluous.

will announce that this is an image or graphic. So that's the usual, the indicator that the

screen reader gives anyway. So you don't need to say like image of or picture of or something like

that, that you don't need to do that. That said, it might be sometimes needed to make a distinction.

So, for example, you might say screenshot of app XYZ, or you might want to say like, you know, artistic photograph or something like that of this and that.

So, you know, there's always nuance in these things.

Yeah.