Glossary term
What is Alt text?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Alt text" means: Words that stand in for an image when someone cannot see it, read aloud by screen readers. It is taught in HTML and CSS: Build and Launch Your First Website, Power BI: Build Dashboards People Actually Use and SEO for Beginners: Get Found on Google and 1 more course.
- 4 courses teach it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Alt text?
Words that stand in for an image when someone cannot see it, read aloud by screen readers. (From HTML and CSS: Build and Launch Your First Website. 3 other courses define it for their own subject, so each definition follows.)
What does Alt text mean in HTML and CSS: Build and Launch Your First Website?
Words that stand in for an image when someone cannot see it, read aloud by screen readers.
What does Alt text mean in Power BI: Build Dashboards People Actually Use?
A short written description of a visual that a screen reader reads aloud.
What does Alt text mean in SEO for Beginners: Get Found on Google?
A short written description of an image, used by people who cannot see it and by search systems.
What does Alt text mean in Build and Publish a Business Website With AI?
A short written description of an image. Screen readers read it aloud, and it shows if the image fails to load.
Where is Alt text taught?
Alt text is defined in HTML and CSS: Build and Launch Your First Website, Power BI: Build Dashboards People Actually Use, SEO for Beginners: Get Found on Google and Build and Publish a Business Website With AI.
HTML and CSS: Build and Launch Your First WebsitePower BI: Build Dashboards People Actually UseSEO for Beginners: Get Found on GoogleBuild and Publish a Business Website With AI
Which lessons cover Alt text?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- HTML and CSS: Build and Launch Your First Website, lesson 1.4: Images and alt text
- Power BI: Build Dashboards People Actually Use, lesson 5.4: Polish: Titles, Numbers, Color and Access
- SEO for Beginners: Get Found on Google, lesson 3.3: Images: File Names, Alt Text and Size
Which terms are related to Alt text?
Next to Alt text in the course glossaries: Absolute URL, Landmark, Relative path, Viewport, Attribute, Custom property, Element, Class, Drillthrough and Reconcile.
Absolute URLLandmarkRelative pathViewportAttributeCustom propertyElementClassDrillthroughReconcile
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Alt text?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- HTML and CSS: Build and Launch Your First Website: No coding experience is needed.
- Power BI: Build Dashboards People Actually Use: You have access to a Windows computer; no coding or database experience is needed.
- SEO for Beginners: Get Found on Google: A real website to work on (your own, an employer's or a client's with written permission) or a practice site that you plan and describe in detail.
- Build and Publish a Business Website With AI: No coding, design or marketing experience needed.