But if it’s a lot of text? That option is less attractive. If it’s just a few sentences, it’s not a big deal to just type it out. Or maybe there is some text I have in an image that I want to be able to edit. For the curious, the alt-text is “Image of text from a previous blog post,” and you may even be able to read that text by mousing over the image.īut, really, if the text in the image is important, I should use the text itself, not an image of the text. A screen reader would come to this image and read the alt-text. It’s just a quick screenshot of text from a previous blog post. In that vein, I have been thinking about OCR – optical character recognition. Are our videos captioned? Do our webpages and document images have alt-text that can be read by screen readers? We have been talking a lot at my college about accessibility.
