Many images on the portal include text. Often the text portion of the image is more important to the person visiting the site than the image is. Such is the case of the following image.
I chose this image because … Read the rest
Can Alt-Text Have Line Breaks
Well, that depends. It depends on where you try to create them.
Let’s start with a word document. If you have a word document that contains an image, you can right-click on the image and select the “Edit Alt Text…” … Read the rest
Alt Text for Images with Text
Background
If you use an image that contains text that you want site visitors to read, that text must be included elsewhere on the page so that screen readers can read the text for the visually impaired and blind. In … Read the rest
Alt Text for Functional Images
AIn this post, I’ll take a look at how to use alt text for functional images. But first, what is a functional image and how does it differ from an informative image previously discussed.
Essentially the difference is that a … Read the rest
Alt Text for Decorative Images
What is a decorative image when applied to a webpage? It is any image that does not add information to the content of the page. It could be part of the page design such as a border around the page, … Read the rest
Alt-Text for Informative Images
What is an informative image when applied to a webpage? It is any image that adds materially to the understanding of the other text on the page. The alt-text, in this case, should be short, no more than a sentence, … Read the rest
The Alt Text Series
This post begins a series of posts on how to use the alt attribute with images in a variety of different scenarios. Not all images on a web page are the same. The purpose of the image on a webpage … Read the rest
Style and Consistency – Part 1 – Links
Style and consistency on your web pages are very important issues when publishing your finished web page. I am going to take a portion of a web page and highlight some of the things you need to review before publishing … Read the rest
News Content Pages and the Advance Data Display Portlet
If you are using the Advanced Data Display portlet either on a standalone page or as part of a News Content page, you may have added a Featured Image to Page Content area. If you did, you still need to … Read the rest
All IMG elements must have an ALT attribute
While it is true that images added to a web page using the Image Manager button in the content editor menu will not currently allow you to add an image to a content area without entering text into the Alt-Text … Read the rest