Why do you need alt text on your images?
 

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Why do you need alt text on your images?

Alt text is a great place to include your main keyword to improve your image search ranking for that term. However, it is important to use appropriate text that actually describes your image. You should not include keywords if they are not relevant to the image being displayed, and if it doesn’t describe the image. If you do this, it could do more harm than good and negatively affect your website’s SEO.

The purpose of alt attributes is to provide a description of the contents of an image file. One of the most cited uses of alt attributes is to provide text for visitors who can't see images in their browsers. ... If a viewer can see your images, alt attributes will also show when the user hovers over your image.

For telling google, This image belongs to which topic.

Alt text is a great place to includemain keyword to improve image search ranking for that term.

if a page doesn't load for some reason, people can still find out what the image is by reading the alt text.

Synopsis. Note: The term "ALT tag" is a common shorthand term used to refer to the ALT attribute within in the IMG tag. Any time you use an image, be sure to include an ALT tag or ALT text within the IMG tag. Doing so will provide a clear text alternative of the image for screen reader users.

Synopsis. Note: The term "ALT tag" is a common shorthand term used to refer to the ALT attribute within in the IMG tag. Any time you use an image, be sure to include an ALT tag or ALT text within the IMG tag. Doing so will provide a clear text alternative of the image for screen reader users.

Synopsis. Note: The term "ALT tag" is a common shorthand term used to refer to the ALT attribute within in the IMG tag. Any time you use an image, be sure to include an ALT tag or ALT text within the IMG tag. Doing so will provide a clear text alternative of the image for screen reader users.

If images do not show in a browser, for whatever reason, the alt text will show in place of the images, giving context to what the images actually contain for those who can't see them.

Alt image is one of the technique to make the site visible to the user. By simply placing the icon on the image we get about the website details about the image

the alt text is like a keyword for the image

The purpose of giving alt text to your images is to indicate Google that there are images which need to be crawled.

Importance of alt text in images!!!
 

Main uses of alt texts are used by screen readers,browser used by blind and visually impaired people these are mainly used for show the description of the images

The purpose of alt attributes is to provide a description of the contents of an image file. One of the most cited uses of alt attributes is to provide text for visitors who can't see images in their browsers. If a viewer can see your images, alt attributes will also show when the user hovers over your image.