Linkedin Image Alt Text. Adding or editing alt text isn t available on mobile devices. Adding alt text on linkedin images can only be done when you are logged in to your account using a desktop.
You can add or edit alt text for images you upload from a desktop computer by clicking add description at the top right of your image. Back in february linkedin quietly added a manual alt text tagging option for uploaded images helping to improve platform functionality for vision impaired users while also potentially giving linkedin another element to use for related search and discovery options. Alt text of a linked image passes both seo value to the webpage the image is on and the webpage the image link links to.
In start a post at the top of your linkedin timeline select the image icon select the image you want to add once the image displays select add description.
When an image has no alt attribute or if the alt attribute is empty or null alt screen readers essentially ignore those images. When an image has no alt attribute or if the alt attribute is empty or null alt screen readers essentially ignore those images. This makes photos uploaded. However any time an image is the only content within a link the image must be given alternative text that presents the function of that link.