An introduction on text descriptions, their benefits, and principles. Part of:How to write text descriptions (alt text) in BBC News articles Contributors Text descriptions are also known as alt text, ...

How to differentiate the two descriptions of an image. Part of:How to write text descriptions (alt text) in BBC News articles Contributors Often, journalists spend time writing a good caption, then ...

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Often, journalists spend time writing a good caption, then copy and paste it as their text description. This is bad practice and should not be done. A caption must: echo some information already ...