[Athen] Guide to Writing Alt Text

[Howard Kramer]

Deb,

WAI has a nice tutorial with example code snippets on creating alt text for
images and they review the different types of images - decorative,
functional, complex, etc., and the recommended approach for each.
https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/

Cheers,
Howard

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 7:24 AM, Castiglione, Deb A <
deb.castiglione at cengage.com> wrote:


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> Speaking of… does anyone have a good guide/guidelines to writing alt text

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> Thanks much.

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