Just How Long Should Alt Text Be?
I teach a class over at the local college here in Long Beach and a majority of the content is hosted on the Canvas LMS so students can access it online. And, naturally, I want the content to be as …
I teach a class over at the local college here in Long Beach and a majority of the content is hosted on the Canvas LMS so students can access it online. And, naturally, I want the content to be as …
Eric doesn’t mince words, especially in the title, but also in the conclusion:
…In modern web design and development, displaying an image is a highly intentional act. Alternate descriptions allow us to explain the content of the image, and in
In this week’s roundup: multi-column layouts gain wide support, the ADA means more A11y for retailers, and Google is doing something about all the empty image alt
attributes in the wild.…
In this week’s roundup, how to determine a slow connection, what we should put into alt
text for images, and a new polyfill for the HTML loading
attribute, plus more.…
Scott O’Hara digs into the <figure></figure>
and <figcaption></figcaption>
elements. Gotta love a good ol’ HTML deep dive.
I use these on just about every blog post here on CSS-Tricks, and as I’ve suspected, I’ve basically been doing it wrong forever. …
Web developers and content editors alike often forget or ignore one of the most important parts of making a website accessible and SEO performant: image alt text. You know, that seemingly small image attribute that describes an image:
<img src="/cute/sloth/image.jpg"
… I’m sure you know about alt
text. It’s the attribute on the image tag that has the important task of describing what that image is for someone who can’t see it for any reason. Please use them.
I don’t want …