Did you realize that uploading photos without considering the value of Alt text might have a detrimental influence on your website’s SEO? This is because search engines that include Google and Bing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Facebook’s image outage earlier this week offered the general public a ...

One of the most powerful ways we can improve the accessibility of our website is the creation of alternative text for images. Alternative text, or alt text, is a concise text description conveying the ...

If you want to serve Web visitors with visual handicaps make certain your Web site is accessible to them. The simplest thing you can do is to place alt= tags on all images, so their content can be ...

Google's John Mueller said that having different languages on the same page "makes it harder to determine which language is the primary language of a page." You don't want to make it harder for Google ...

Google's John Mueller clarified in yesterday's webmaster hangout video that while Google does look and read the alternative image attribute (alt tag) for use on web search, it plays a small role there ...