You can check if an image has alt text by turning on a screen-reader and selecting the picture to hear how it's described. You can also inspect the HTML of the image ...

Google's John Mueller said that having different languages on the same page "makes it harder to determine which language is the primary language of a page." You don't want to make it harder for Google ...

Image alt text is important for accessibility and beneficial for SEO. But if you have lots of images on your website, manually writing alt text for all of them will be time-consuming. This article is ...

One of the most powerful ways we can improve the accessibility of our website is the creation of alternative text for images. Alternative text, or alt text, is a concise text description conveying the ...

Alt text is a short written description of an image that describes the appearance, content and/or function of an image. Screen readers read the alt text aloud to website visitors, allowing them to ...

Editor’s Note: Mueller clarified his earlier comments in response to a reader question on Twitter on March 26, adding that “Google sees alt-text as a part of the page (you can search for it and find ...

Readers of a certain age may remember early e-books that had black rectangles in place of the images. (They were rendered as such because publishers had only obtained print rights to the images.) That ...