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How to Use Alternate Text in Images
The alternative text comes with a hyperlink underneath it and it says, learn how to describe the purpose of an image. So anybody who failed to find that link in the show notes, every time you go into the media library, that link is actually underneath the alternative text. Always finish your alt text with a period because that will allow the screen reader to pause before it goes into the next bit of reading. A couple of things to keep in mind when you're doing alt text is you don't say image of your photo of. Because the screen reader will come across the image element and will already say this is an image.
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