what is the importance of associating alternate text with an image
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Importance of alternate text for image:
• Alt text or alternate text is a feature added to an image tag in HTML.
• This text seems inside the image container when the image cannot be exhibited.
• It helps search engines comprehend what an image is about.
• Alternate text is also very accommodating in case images on a page cannot be found.
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sometimes a browsers on the users computer does not display images due to some reasons. in that case you can display the text to provide a description about the image. the alt attribut lets you specify the text as an alternate to the image
. the only purpose of alt attribute is to provide a description of the contents of an image file. it is generally used in case the user is having a text based browser on his computer such as lynx. it also proves to be useful when the user is a blind surfer for whom the browser is program to read allowed the alternate text instead of displaying the image.