Descriptive Alt text

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Descriptive Alt-text

We have committed to providing alt-text for all figure images, plots and graphs included in our lessons.

Alt-text is integrated into the liquid syntax we use to include images. The required format is:
{% include figure.html filename="file-name.png" alt="Visual description of figure image" caption="Caption text to display" %}

We've found Amy Cesal's guide to Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization particularly useful.
Cesal advises that alt-text for graphs and data visualisations should consist of the following:

alt="Chart type of data type where reason for including chart"