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Change to designing alternative text tip #297
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## Provide alternative text for images

Provide text which describes the purpose of each image. Images might convey information, provide decoration, or support functionality. Alternative text is not needed for purely decorative images that don't add information to the page.
Consider how imagery, sound, or video will be accessed by users unable to perceive visual or audio content. The design should provide a way to access video or audio transcripts, captions, or audio descriptions. Imagery may be informational (for example, a chart), functional (for example, icons and image buttons), or decorative (for example, 'smiling person' photography). Communicate with writers and developers to convey those needs.

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The Tip is titled "Provide alternative text for images", but the new description talks about sound and video. Either the tip title needs to be broader, or the description should be more focused. I mildly think it is useful to make it broader, since when designing, one might need to provide links to alternatives.

So maybe do include something like "Design a way for users to access transcripts and video with audio descriptions, as needed." (Probably not include captions – since that's usually specific to a media player. For audio descriptions, sometimes there is an alternative video with them, so would need to include a link to it.)
And if broader, do we need additional For more info links, e.g., about multimedia alternatives?

The wording is too formal and convoluted for these Tips. For example, I think nowhere on the WAI website do we use "imagery". I suggest that it's not worth the extra complexity of info processing (especially for non-native speakers), and that we just use "images". I think the examples may add more complexity than they help.

"Consider how imagery, sound, or video will be accessed by users unable to perceive visual or audio content" -- we don't include this type of info in any of the other tips, afaik, so I don't think we want to do it here.
I'm not sure about "Communicate with writers and developers…"

(I won't spend time drafting specific suggested text until we decide whether this will just be images, or also other alternatives.)

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