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alternative text

Alternative text is giving both a description of the image detailing and a literal definition of what pictures and images are showing and portraying so that people who are visually impaired can understand them and if the image fails to load for the user. To give an alternative text description of images:

  1. You have to first look at what the image is trying to portray to you.
  2. Give a literal and an as detailed as you can description for the image using the most appropriate and least amount of words you can.
  3. By looking at the alternative text description you should be able to visualize what the image may look like and maybe the message that it is trying to give to you.
An image of a shiny yellow star with sunglasses flirtingly snapping and pointing at a disgusted yellow triangle with a droppy top hat.
For example: the alternative text for this image would be "An image of a a shiny yellow star with sunglasses flirtingly snapping and pointing at a disgusted yellow triangle with a droppy top hat".