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Alt text guidance text update
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m-sullivan7 authored Jan 15, 2025
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### Add alt text to images

Screen readers look for alt text. [Add useful alt text to images](https://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/) so screen readers can describe images to people who use them.
Screen readers look for alt text. [Write alt text](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/write-alt-text/) that helps people who use screen readers.

<div class="leftright-nav-container">
<div class="left-nav"><a class="internal-link" href="/content-design/principles/meet-your-audience-where-they-are/">Meet your audience where they are</a></div>
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### Accessibility

* [Web Accessibility Toolkit](https://dor.ca.gov/Home/WebAccessibilityToolkit) is a comprehensive guide to digital accessibility at the state. It’s maintained by Disability Works California (formerly the Department of Rehabilitation).
* Web Accessibility Initiative is the leading internet accessibility standards organization.
* [Cognitive Accessibility Guidance](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG2/supplemental/#-cognitive-accessibility-guidance). It helps you make content understood by people with cognitive and learning disabilities.
* [An alt decision tree](https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/decision-tree/) is a tool we use when deciding whether an image needs to have alt text.
* [How to: write good Alt Text](https://supercooldesign.co.uk/blog/how-to-write-good-alt-text) is good general guidance for writing alt text.
* [Cognitive Accessibility Guidance](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG2/supplemental/#-cognitive-accessibility-guidance) helps you make content understood by people with cognitive and learning disabilities.
* [Alt Text: What to Write](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/write-alt-text/) is good general guidance for writing alt text.

### Content design

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