Image Alt Text Max Length. Alt text and image descriptions can provide essential information such as text links and image details. Adding alternative text to photos is first and foremost a principle of web accessibility.
Moreover this text has some line breaks. Alt text helps google understand what an image is about and as googlebot does not see images directly google uses information provided in the alt attribute google will count 16 words maximum as part of image alt attribute text use longdesc for complex images although this is depracted in html5. Use alt if the image is only for decoration.
The text should describe the image if the image contains information.
If yours doesn t then format should look like the above example. If you call it a duck and it ain t a duck that blows the value of alt text. What to avoid when writing. I d like to insert an image on a webpage with an alt property.