Assigning alternate text to graphics

Alternate text is an image label that describes the graphic. It is displayed if:

Providing alternate text is critical to make your HTML accessible (that is, useful even if a reader cannot see the graphics).Here's how to do it:

  1. Create a custom marker in your FrameMaker documents. You must name it ImageAltText so that it automaps to the corresponding Publisher marker style.
  2. Inside each anchored frame, insert a text column and create an ImageAltText marker with the text that you want to use as the alternate text.
  3. Save your FrameMaker file and regenerate your project.

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