{"id":54,"date":"2022-10-30T16:02:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T16:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/?p=54"},"modified":"2022-10-30T16:02:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T16:02:43","slug":"alt-text-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/2022\/10\/30\/alt-text-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Alt text information"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WP Accessibility adds a column to the media library list view to identify images with missing or inadequate <code>alt<\/code> attributes. The tests include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Checking for common invalid values, such as <code>\"\"<\/code>, <code>''<\/code>, <code>&amp;nbsp<\/code>, empty spaces, or hyphens.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Identify images with no alternative text<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Identify images with unusually long alternate text. (Default check is 140 characters, but can be changed with a filter.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Identify images with suspicious alternate text. Suspicious alternate text values include the words &#8216;logo&#8217;, &#8216;image&#8217;, &#8216;picture&#8217;, &#8216;alt text&#8217; or &#8216;alternative text&#8217;, or the strings &#8216;DSC&#8217; or &#8216;IMG&#8217; in all caps. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"610\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/10\/image.png\" alt=\"Shows the variations on how different alt status is shown in the media library.\" class=\"wp-image-56\" srcset=\"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/10\/image.png 526w, https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/10\/image-259x300.png 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Some alt text labelling variations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WP Accessibility adds a column to the media library list view to identify images with missing or inadequate alt attributes. The tests include:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}