Providing Alternative Textcontent, and they will disable the images. Another important concern is that many people visiting the Web are visually impaired or blind. In all these cases, it's helpful to provide some clues to your visitor as to what the image represents. This is done using alternative text, which uses the alt attribute and a description, as shown in Example 3-2. Example 3-2. Adding an alt text description<img src="photo.jpg" width="250" height="188" alt="photograph of a delicious Vietnamese Figure 3-4. Alternative text in a browser where images are disabled.
The second way alternative text appears is upon mouseover of an image. This assists everyone because it provides more contextual clues on the image's purpose (see Figure 3-5). Figure 3-5. Alternative text in a ToolTip as the mouse passes over the image.
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