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    ALT Tags on Images in Blog Posts

    • August 28, 2018
    • Megan Ross
    • best practices, Blogs

    ALT tags (also known as alternative text, ALT text, or image descriptions) are an important factor in making your webpages accessible. This is also true for images used in your blog posts. Michigan Tech’s Accessible Technology Training Resources provides a training resource and guidelines for image ALT tags.
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