[BlindTlk] Alt text help

Jude DaShiell jdashiel at panix.com
Sun Aug 9 16:20:54 UTC 2020


The w3c validator will bee a good start.  I expect the alt text is not
in the code that puts the images on that page.  That has to be there for
the alt text to be associated with those images.

On Mon, 3 Aug 2020, Vejas Vasiliauskas via BlindTlk wrote:

> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 22:56:35
> From: Vejas Vasiliauskas via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> To: blindtlk at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Vejas Vasiliauskas <alpineimagination at gmail.com>
> Subject: [BlindTlk] Alt text help
>
> Hi,
> I hope everyone is having a great week.
> Someone sighted has asked me for input with alt-text and image descriptions. This person sent me a page where they said there are 9 images with alt-text descriptions, and they asked if I could see any of the alt-text on my screen-reader.
> I have tried both with an iPhone with VoiceOver and a Windows 10 PC running JAWS, and I'm unable to find the alt-text. I would like to respond with some suggestions or guidance on how the alt-text can be made visible and accessible. Does anyone know of a good resource for this, or a way I can describe to this person how to make the text visible?
> Thank you,
> Vejas
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