What is an Image Alt Text?
 

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What is an Image Alt Text?

Image Alt tag is a On Page Optimization. It used to help the Search Engine to easily understand the particular image name and details.

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Alt text or alternate text is an attribute added to an image tag in HTML. This text appears inside the image container when the image can not be displayed. It helps search engines understand what an image is about. Alternate text is also very helpful in case images on a page cannot be found.

The ALT tag adds a text description to an image on a Web page, and should be used for all images, graphical bullets, and graphical horizontal rules. The alt text within the ALT tag should let the user know what an image’s content and purpose are.
Alt text is accessed by screen reader users to provide them with a text equivalent of images. In visual browsers, the alt text is displayed when an image is broken, or when all images have been disabled. Using ALT tags is also beneficial to users on Palm Pilots or low-bandwidth connections, where images are slow to download.

Image Alt tag is a On Page Optimization. It used to help the Search Engine to easily understand the particular image name and details.

Image alt tag is a HTML tag to define an image on a webpage. This helps search engines read through images rank them higher in search engines.

Alt text (alternative text), also known as "alt attributes", “alt descriptions,” and technically incorrectly as "alt tags,” are used within an HTML code to describe the appearance and function of an image on a page.

Alt text uses:

1. Adding alternative text to photos is first and foremost a principle of web accessibility. Visually impaired users using screen readers will be read an alt attribute to better understand an on-page image.

2. Alt tags will be displayed in place of an image if an image file cannot be loaded.

3. Alt tags provide better image context/descriptions to search engine crawlers, helping them to index an image properly.

Image Alt tag is a On Page Optimization. It used to help the Search Engine to easily understand the particular image name and details.

Image Alt is a On-Page technique which refers to the name of your image and makes google easily understand what image is it.

Image Alt means if the website you are crawling but the images in the website are not showing, so the image alt will give the information about the image and user will know that what kind of image that is.