{"id":7341,"date":"2019-08-19T08:15:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T12:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/?page_id=7341"},"modified":"2022-05-12T08:57:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T12:57:57","slug":"informative-images","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/informative-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Informative Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7342 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/wp-content\/uploads\/we-win.jpg\" alt=\"A man holds aloft a newspaper which declares &quot;We win!&quot; while other men raise their drinks in celebration.\" width=\"640\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/wp-content\/uploads\/we-win.jpg 640w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/wp-content\/uploads\/we-win-160x95.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/wp-content\/uploads\/we-win-240x142.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/wp-content\/uploads\/we-win-400x237.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/wp-content\/uploads\/we-win-360x213.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/wp-content\/uploads\/we-win-200x118.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The alt text for this image reads &#8220;<span class=\"webkit-html-attribute-value\">A man holds aloft a newspaper which declares &#8220;We win!&#8221; while other men raise their drinks in celebration.<\/span>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(This is an example of an image where, although it conveys text &#8211; the newspaper headline &#8211; its use is justified because the point of the photo is the newspaper being held aloft in celebration.)<\/p>\n<p>This is also a good example where a caption could be instead of alt text. A general principle is to use a caption if the alt text has to go beyond 100 characters in order to convey what is happening in the photo.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17591\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 640px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17591\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/wp-content\/uploads\/we-win2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/wp-content\/uploads\/we-win2.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/wp-content\/uploads\/we-win2-240x142.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/wp-content\/uploads\/we-win2-400x237.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/wp-content\/uploads\/we-win2-160x95.jpeg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/wp-content\/uploads\/we-win2-360x213.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/wp-content\/uploads\/we-win2-200x118.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man holds a newspaper aloft, with the headline, &#8220;WE WIN&#8221;, while other men toast with glasses of beer. This marks the Boston Braves clinching of the NL Pennant. The date is September 29, 1948.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The above image has a caption that will be read either by the person or by a screenreader. Its alt text is\u00a0<em>alt=&#8221;&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By the way, a bad example using the same image would be this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7345\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/wp-content\/uploads\/we-win2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/wp-content\/uploads\/we-win2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/wp-content\/uploads\/we-win2-160x95.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/wp-content\/uploads\/we-win2-240x142.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/wp-content\/uploads\/we-win2-400x237.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/wp-content\/uploads\/we-win2-360x213.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/wp-content\/uploads\/we-win2-200x118.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The alt text for this image reads &#8220;A man holds aloft a newspaper which declares &#8220;We win!&#8221; while other men raise their drinks in celebration.&#8221; (This is an example of an image where, although it conveys text &#8211; the newspaper headline &#8211; its use is justified because the point of the photo is the newspaper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - 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