34.2.1 Following WAI guidelines for images

The WAI guidelines for images are intended to provide a text equivalent for every non-text element. For more information, see:

http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#image-text-equivalent

DITA2Go provides settings for the following attributes:

alt

Short text equivalent of an image.

longdesc

Path to an HTML file containing text that describes the image.

title

Image description, for user agents that do not support longdesc.

You can provide alt and title attributes for an image either with a paragraph format or with a PI marker.

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