‘Alt Tags’ – short for Alternate Tags were originally designed to contain the text to be displayed on web pages instead of images if a user’s computer did not have the capability (specification) to be able to display images.
However, as time has gone by, nearly all computer monitors now have the capability of displaying images. This has meant that some web designers have decided to forget about adding Alt Tags to their images. Big mistake.
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