Web Accessibility at Fordham University Libraries: Working with Images

Images must have text alternatives (alt-text) assigned to them to describe their information and purpose. The Web Accessibility Initiative of W3C categorizes the following 7 image concepts:

• Informative images

• Decorative images

• Functional images

• Images of text

• Complex images such as graphs and diagrams

• Groups of images

• Image maps

  Try the Images Tutorial from the Web Accessibility Initiative of W3C to learn more about each image type and strategies for assigning alt-text.

  Try the alt Decision Tree portion of the tutorial for a quick guide on how to assign alt-text to a sampling of use cases.