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When posting a picture of a chess board, in a blog post or a website, what should the alt text be? The text that will be shown in case the image was not shown. example, html img tag <img src"chessimg.png" alt="" />

I am assuming an explanation of the chess position with the pieces' coordinates?

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  • The first thing that comes to mind is a PGN or FEN of the game. This would be a good alt text to show if the page doesn't load, but I don't know how useful it would be to someone using a screen reader. Commented Jul 3, 2024 at 10:03
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    @MrinalJain if FEN is a good choice, then i would prefer to stick to it because it is an official standard of writing chess position, however, i am not sure it is the best choice, the pieces of white and black are written with the same character, only difference is capitalization, so maybe there should be a standard for alt text for chess images. Commented Jul 6, 2024 at 21:09

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