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Text alternative for images and other non-text content that conveys the same message or meaning as the image. Text alternatives can be rendered as synthetic speech or Braille by a screen reader.

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Please provide a mechanism for image alt text in chat. Possible syntaxes: Markdown: ![Alt text](https://example.com/image.png) Quotey: https://example.com/image.png "Alt text" Multi-line: ...
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As a follow-up on Can we make image description required?, I wonder: How can one add an alt text for a linked image?
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Right after the image is uploaded to the site, i.e. "Add picture" is clicked, we see the text "enter image description here". That text is selected so the following keyboard input ...
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Feature request: Remove [Text] from the no-alt-text warning message. Screenshot taken on https://ell.stackexchange.com/
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What does [Text] refer to in the no-alt-text warning message? Screenshot taken on https://ell.stackexchange.com/
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While reviewing the results of my script that repairs broken images across the network, I noticed there are many images where the alt text is "a busy cat". It might be an older version of ...
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As a follow-up question of Stop image upload completion from stealing cursor focus, I wonder what percentage of images on SE have a meaningful alt-text. Edit: by meaningful, I mean useful.
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Upon image upload completion, the cursor focus is moved to the image tag (see example below). Feature request: don't move the cursor focus.
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Consider: In Firefox (with ad blockers enabled) the toolbar is rendered like this.
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When you use the image uploader, it creates something like this: [![enter image description here][1]][1] This text is invisible to most people in the preview and serves no obvious purpose, so many ...
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If we have any hope of making technology more diverse and inclusive, we have to make technical learning resources accessible to all. That's a direct quote from "Agility starts with trust", ...
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When writing a question, you now have to submit the question to go through an automated review process before being allowed to post it. If the review was successful, it'll give you this message: Our ...
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When a user's avatar is not available, and they're listed in the Top Network Askers in the right sidebar of https://stackexchange.com/, the alt text of the avatar overlaps the username or site name in ...
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Answer(s) to How to upload an image to a post? (found in metaFAQ) explain several reasons why we should replace the default "enter image description here" with something meaningful. Are there any ...
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There is an issue with the <img alt in the Stack Overflow Blog - Authors page. Today when I'm accessing the blog authors page in slow internet connection, I see the image alternate text is ...
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