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Re: character limit on alt attribute for screen readers

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From: Kelly Lupo
Date: Feb 3, 2016 9:03AM

As far as I know, it reads everything. That said, I had attended a webinar
for creation of accessible materials where a question (mine!) was addressed
regarding how long alt-text *should* be. The presenter said that on
average, anything more than 100 characters (not words) often starts to
become cumbersome to the user of a screen-reader.

I'm not sure what industry standard is on this (I'm very much a newb), but
that was what I have been told!

Kelly

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Angela French < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Is there a character count for alt attribute values for screen readers to
> read it all, or do they truncate?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Angela French
> Internet Specialist
> Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
> 360-704-4316
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