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alt text
noun
A text caption, associated with an image or other element, that is rendered if the usual content cannot be rendered.
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Use appropriate alt text for images.
2. Use ALT Text for graphical page separators or headers.
Additionally, the alt text of images is indexed.
On a recent Monday morning, King performed a demonstration of automatic alt text on his iPad.
After playing with Automatic Alt Text, Salsiccia has a few complaints.
Wieland was quick to point out that automatic alt text is still in its early days.
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The feature builds on the "automatic alt-text tool" Facebook launched two years ago, which describes objects and activities in photos to users with screen readers.
The company also said that some mobile sites were missing alt-text for images, which makes it harder for Google to understand the images' content.
A three-finger tap on a photo with VoiceOver turned on will elicit more detailed descriptions (aka "alt-text") of what's in the shot.
Facebook's accessibility team is also looking at an alt-text tool for video that could describe what's happening in the video for those who are visually impaired.
Facebook's work around accessibility took center stage in 2016 when it launched something called automatic alt-text (AAT) for people using screen readers to identify what's displayed.
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