VLE Help Centre | Liverpool Community College
Add a description and title for images to aid accessibility
The primary purpose of the desription text (also known as ALT text) and title is to provide alternative, textual content when an image cannot be viewed. It is there to provide users whodo not see the image with replacement information, this should help them to make sense of the document.
Use the ALT to provide text for visitors who for some reason cannot see the images in your document. This includes visitors using browsers that cannot display images or have image display disabled, visually impaired visitors, and screen reader users. Alt text is intended to be displayed instead of an image, not as additional information.
Think carefully before writing alternate text for images. Make sure that the text actually provides useful information to anyone not seeing the image and that it makes sense in the context. If the image is purely decorative, write a short description, eg… “Decorative Image”.
The easiest images to write alt text for are those that contain text. In thiscase the text the image contains is generally what should be included in the ALT text.
Adding ALT Text to Images on Your Course Page
When editing a section summary or label and using the text editor, right click on an image to bring up a menu.
From this menu select “Insert/Edit Image“…
This will open a popup window, in this window you can edit the details of your image. Enter the Description text and Title text, then click on the Update button…
After clicking update the window will close, click the Save Changes button on the Summary or Label editing page to submit changes.
