Adding alt text to a slide
Alt text is a description of any visual media on a page that will appear if the image cannot be rendered or for people who use screen readers to navigate the web. It is an important element of creating a fully accessible activity.
New VT
From the edit page:
- Go to the Edit page.
- Click on the menu icon in the bottom-right corner of the slide you want to title, then click on the pencil icon (label: “Edit”).
![slide_menu_edit.png](https://static.voicethread.com/uploads/slide_menu_edit.png)
- Scroll down and enter your alt text into the “Slide description or text preview” field.
![edit_slide_dialog.png](https://static.voicethread.com/uploads/edit_slide_dialog.png)
- Save.
From an open VoiceThread
- Click on the slide details icon near the top-right corner of the page, then click on the pencil icon (label: “Edit”).
![edit_slide_dialog.png](https://static.voicethread.com/uploads/slide_details_edit.png)
- Scroll down and enter your alt text into the “Slide description or text preview” field.
![edit_slide_dialog.png](https://static.voicethread.com/uploads/edit_slide_dialog.png)
- Save.
From the slide gallery
- Click on the slide gallery button.
![slide_gallery_icon.png](https://static.voicethread.com/uploads/slide_gallery_icon.png)
- Click on the menu icon in the bottom-right corner of the slide you want to title, then click on the pencil icon (label: “Edit”).
![slide_gallery_edit.png](https://static.voicethread.com/uploads/slide_gallery_edit.png)
- Scroll down and enter your alt text into the “Slide description or text preview” field.
![edit_slide_dialog.png](https://static.voicethread.com/uploads/edit_slide_dialog.png)
- Save.
Legacy VT
To add alt text to a slide in your VoiceThread:
- Go to the Edit page.
- Find the slide you want to describe.
- Click on the pencil icon in the bottom-left corner of that slide thumbnail.
![EditSlide](https://static.voicethread.com/wp-uploads/2014/06/EditSlide.png)
- Enter your text into the slide description field. It will be labeled differently for each type of slide:
- Image or document slide: “Slide description or text preview”
- Audio slide: “Audio Recap”
- Video slide: “Video Description”
- Save.
Alt text will be read by a screen reader, but it will not be visible on the page.
![Screenshot of the input field for entering alt text](https://static.voicethread.com/uploads/alt-text.png)