meaningful-alt-text-ai
AI-assisted rule to ensure that images have a meaningful alt text that describes the image.
Description
Images used in a website should have a meaningful text alternative that describes the image meaningfully. Random texts that do not add value or meaning to people with visual difficulties are not useful.
Assistive technologies like screen readers rely on alt text to describe images used in a website. Also, alt texts help users who have difficulty understanding the meaning of photographs, complex pictures, and other images.
The meaningful-alt-text-ai
rule detects non-helpful alt texts and suggests better alt texts using AI to improve your website’s accessibility.
If this rule is detected you can click Generate AI suggestions to view better alt texts.
Examples
Consider the following image:
Suppose the alt text for this image is something random like ‘photo’, ‘image’, or ‘img’, it doesn’t add any meaningful information. People with visual difficulties will not be able to understand what the image truly represents.
Instead, consider the alt text ‘Oil rig silhouette in the foreground against a cloudy, orange sunset’. Such descriptive alt texts help users know what the image is, and offer a consistent experience to users with or without visual difficulties.
Please note that this example is only for demonstration purposes.
How to fix?
- Replace non-descriptive alt texts in images with meaningful and descriptive alt texts. The alt text should serve the same purpose as the image.
- Consider using the AI-generated descriptive alt texts suggested by BrowserStack Accessibility Testing.
- If the image is decorative, i.e. does not add information that is not already present in the webpage, use
role="presentation"
, a null alt, or attacharia-hidden
with the image code.
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