NYU LibGuide Accessibility

NYU Digital Accessibility knowledge-base article on creating and adding alt-text to images in websites.

Instructions for including accessible infographics on your website.

Alternative text, or “alt-text” describes the content of images, graphs and charts. It should be added to every image that conveys meaning in instructional and communications materials including Moodle sites, word processing documents, and slide presentations.

Instructional graphics like charts and graphs can be powerful learning tools, and you should use them wherever they illuminate your content, such as reducing complexity or showing patterns in data. Design organized, relevant graphics that utilize best practices in alt-text, color and contrast, size, and resolution.

Springshare LibGuide FAQ about adding alt-text to an image using the Rich Text Editor.

Also referred to as Alt-Text, adding alternate text to your images is an accessibility best practice. By adding descriptive alternate text to each image, you are providing users of assistive technologies (such as screen readers) a description of the content of the image. With the Image Manager, you can actually add default alternate text to your images.

Each time you reuse an image in LibApps, its default alternate text will be used (though you can customize it if needed). Not only does this save you time in the long run, but it greatly increases the odds that the alt-text won't be overlooked—especially for images in your shared library.

LibGuide example of accessible infographic.

View an accessible version of the infographic above, courtesy of Chris Throup.