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Image Alt Text
A text description in an image's HTML that aids accessibility for screen readers and helps search engines understand the image.
By Brandon Mina·CEO, BrandPilot AI·Updated November 2026
Short answer
Image alt text is a text description in an image's HTML that aids accessibility for screen readers and helps search engines understand the image. It also displays if the image fails to load. Good alt text describes the image concisely and in context, which can help images appear in image search results.