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This is a screencast to illustrate how to add alternative text or alt text and a caption
to an image in Haiku. The first thing you’ll do is click on ‘add content block.’ I’m
going to use ‘on page
on my computer, so I clicked in ‘My Computer,’ choose a file, find my image, click on open,
and it is being uploaded into Haiku. Once it is uploaded into Haiku you have three options
for sizing it: thumbnail, web friendly or original. Thumbnail is about 75 pixels, original
size 661 is way too big for what I want, so I’m going to make it 150 pixels wide. The
next thing you’re going to do is decide the alignment, is it going to be left, right
or you going to display it inline. If you choose inline, please know that you are not
going to be able to use a caption. So I usually choose left. Then I’m going to go down to
the caption block and this is where I usually cite my image source. OK… so I have my image
source, but I need to go out and find where I got my image because I neglected to record
it earlier. So I’m going to go back to my images, find my image and here it is here.
Now, here’s something COOL… I have Google Images already open and all I’m going to
do is drag that picture over into the search and look what happens… it finds my image
for me. I’m going to click on the image itself, and look… it takes me right here
to where I got my image before. I’m going to copy the web site for the image, go back
to Image Source, paste it in and now usually when I do my captioning, I like to make the
text extra small so it doesn’t take up too much space. The next step you’re going to
do is add your alternative text, click on advanced and instead of saying “valentine.JPG”
you’re going to want to describe your image, because alternative text is for screen readers
to actually read for low visioned people. So I’m going to put, “Picture of Valentine
Cookie that says, ‘I love your brain.’” Click on OK, and I have my image, I have my
image source and I’m going to save it. You can see now that my image is in a content
block and if I mouse over the alt text comes up… but watch this, I’m going to turn
on because I’m in Chrome, I’m going to turn on ChromeVox which is a screen reader
and watch this… “Picture of Valentine cookie which says quote I love your brain
quote.” And there you have it, so if a person has low vision and they mouse over the image
it will say what is in the image. And that is how to add alt text and a caption to an
image in Haiku.