What is Image Alt Text?

[jayam]

Alternate text (Alt text) is a text description that can be added to an image's HTML tag on a Web page. It is used when the image in the Web page cannot be displayed, in which case the Alt text is shown instead. It is also displayed when a user mouses over the image.

[RosieYingling]

Alt text or alternative text is an attribute added to a picture tag in HTML. This text appears within the picture container once the image cannot be displayed. It helps search engines know what an picture is all about. Alternative text is also very valuable in the event pictures on a page can't be found.

[GeethaN]

Text that’s read aloud be screen readers for the blind, to tell a blind person what the picture shows. The alt is short for “alternate” (the spoken text as the alternative to seeing the picture).

[beingnaive]

Alternative text that can be shown if incase image is not available or not getting loaded.
Its an HTML tag, and ideally you should always provide an alt text hen using <IMG> tag in your HTML.

[jayam]

Image Alt Text is which appears as a text instead of image when it is corrupted or affected in your web page. we use Image Alt Text in image tag of HTML.

[yuva12]

Alt text or alternate text is an attribute added to an image tag in HTML. This text appears inside the image container when the image can not be displayed. It helps search engines understand what an image is about. Alternate text is also very helpful in case images on a page cannot be found.

[ravikiran]

Also called "alt tags" and "alt descriptions," alt text is the written copy that appears in place of an image on a webpage if the image fails to load on a user's screen. This text helps screen-reading tools describe images to visually impaired readers and allows search engines to better crawl and rank your website.

[harrywilson89]

A large amount of web content consists of images however not many website owners optimize their images for speed or better search rankings.

[pihu147741]

Alt text or alternate text is an attribute added to an image tag in HTML. This text appears inside the image container when the image can not be displayed. It helps search engines understand what an image is about. Alternate text is also very helpful in case images on a page cannot be found

[Jessicad0505]

Image alt text is the process of assigning alternate text to the image, which helps search engine to crawl based on image alt text keyword.

[vashilove]

Alt text or alternate text is an attribute added to an image tag in HTML. This text appears inside the image container when the image can not be displayed.

[foodeez]

Giving Name for the image is called Alt text which is mainly used for Keyword ranking

[ritesh3592]

Enough answers are given, I think now @op should close the thread.

[yuva12]

An alt tag, also known as "alt attribute" and "alt description," is an HTML attribute applied to image tags to provide a text alternative for search engines. Applying images to alt tags such as product photos can positively impact an ecommerce store's search engine rankings.

[canadapr]

Alt Text or Alternate Text is an attribute which is added to image tag in HTML. It is used when the image in the Web page cannot be displayed, This text is displayed when a user mouses over the image.