Advent Calendar day 3 – Beyond 99 Red Balloons: a guide to alternative text and accessible images

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By james, 3 December, 2025
Door 3 revealing a red baloon with "alt" on the side, and the text "Alt text" below
Chris Vickery in a checked shirtAmyJune Hineline pointing at her DrupalCamp Ashville t-shirt

An important aspect of every website project is accessibility, and an important part of that is giving your images meaningful “alt” text to describe their contents.

At this year’s European DrupalCon in Vienna, AmyJune Hineline and Chris Vickery discussed aspects of alt text images, with many examples, mostly from their favourite album covers.

I think when AmyJune says “Hi James” near the start, it was me arriving late, so apologies for my tardiness.

Here is the talk video:

The video makes reference to bonus slides in the presentation, which they didn’t get to in the talk. It includes helpful information such as how to add alt text to an image on a Facebook post, something I never realised was possible. To save you scanning the QR code, here’s a link to the slides.

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Advent Calendar

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