# Alt Text

``` Alt text is an essential tool for accessibility.
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``` It shouldn't be minimized.
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``` It shouldn't be considered in a conversation about syntax highlighting as the two are not on the same level.
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``` Alt text provides a necessary communication of information to blind users.
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``` Syntax highlighting is a nice-to-have markup improvement for sighted users.
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``` These are not the same.
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``` Authoring information that is only visible to some users is wrong.
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``` We shouldn't need to discuss this.
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``` Let's close this door and move on.
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``` How about we put hash-bangs inside our code samples and use that for highlighting?
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Originally Published 2021-02-27 at:
gemini://tilde.team/~tomasino/journal/20210227-alt-text.gmi

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