alt text

noun

Etymology

Short for alternative text. It is represented in HTML by the alt attribute.

Definitions

  1. A text caption, associated with an image or other element, that is rendered if the usual…

    A text caption, associated with an image or other element, that is rendered if the usual content cannot be rendered.

    • Screenreaders for the blind read out the alt text when they encounter an image on a Web page.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for alt text. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA