<![CDATA[Testing image link alt text]]>Alt Text Here

]]>https://citiverse.it/topic/e9306782-b1ce-4759-a5e6-0bc5fb018bac/testing-image-link-alt-textRSS for NodeSat, 24 Oct 2026 06:14:05 GMTMon, 19 Oct 2026 17:56:42 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Testing image link alt text on Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:55:31 GMT]]>It does! The alt and title fields are separate, and if you look at the generated HTML, you can see that the text from the brackets is used as the alt text.

When I remember to set them (I try to, since it’s the nice thing to do for accessibility purposes), I usually set them the same, because even though many people don’t use screen readers, the alt text is what they’ll have read out, while the title text becomes more of an easter egg for other folks.

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/28435276https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/28435276Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:55:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Testing image link alt text on Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:48:35 GMT]]>Shucks, I was specifically trying to see if text within the square brackets does anything at all :c

thanks for the tip

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/28726933https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/28726933Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:48:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Testing image link alt text on Tue, 20 Oct 2026 03:51:15 GMT]]>While alt text is more important than title text for screen readers, many browsers will display the title text more readily. For example, when I long-press on your image, it doesn’t show “Alt Text Here” but if I long press on this one, it will show “Title Text Here”:

Alt Text Here

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/28434690https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/28434690Tue, 20 Oct 2026 03:51:15 GMT