The Image Captioning Process
After you've uploaded your image, click on it to get this box. You can do basic edits (crop, color adjust, add a link, or change the alignment and spacing.
Scroll down in the image editing box and you'll see more tools, specifically Caption. Click on Caption and you'll see a text box where you can add your 100 word caption.
Example of an image with a caption
Alt Texts and Accessibility
Alt texts are descriptors of images. They are necessary for those who use screen readers to access websites. Whenever you use an image, you need to have an alternative text (alt text) to describe what the picture is. Weebly's default alt text is "Picture." To change this to something more useful,
click on the photo. Scroll down to Advanced. Click on Pictture/Alt Text and add a description.
To read more about alt text and web accessibility:
click on the photo. Scroll down to Advanced. Click on Pictture/Alt Text and add a description.
To read more about alt text and web accessibility:
- Accessibility: Image Alt text best practices
- Image Alt Text
- Web Accessibility Tutorials Tips and Tricks
Click on the word Picture to change the default to an alt text.