The phrase "alternate text" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of web accessibility, referring to text that describes images for those who cannot see them.
Example: "To improve accessibility, make sure to include alternate text for all images on your website."
Alternatives: "alt text" or "descriptive text".
To deal with this problem websites use an Alternate Text (ALT Text).
To comply with Federal and University accessibility requirements, make sure you fill in the Alternate Text field for images.
Browsers could be modified to Tab through the image map hot spots reading out the Alternate text and making image maps completely accessible.
It is important when designing sites that each hot spot on an image map element should have an alternate text field added.
One parent in Kentucky, expressed strong objections to the teaching Looking for Alaska in his child's 12th grade English class despite being given the opportunity to opt out and read an alternate text.
"Coney Island is the greatest combination of magnificent artifice in a natural setting". The doctor is a natural symbol for Coney Island, a place where walking down Surf Avenue is like reading an alternate text of "Through the Looking Glass" where Alice is weird, too.
And then he did it a second time, teasing out an entirely different set of alternate texts, innovating new rivers inside the vast and directionless sea of the dead book.
Erickson's novel, a feverish portrait of post-millennial America, restlessly manipulates form and content: a single line of alternate-reality text threads through the second half of the book.
While the production is the program's more polished offering, it also suffers from an overworked, formulaic structure of movement alternating with text.
Its forward propulsion exploded, the page bobs up and down, and the eye of Phillips scans and scans it, slowly teasing out alternate potential texts.
Bach uses techniques developed in opera, alternating biblical texts with arias, their sensuous melodies accompanied by solo instruments.
