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Manually Writing Image Descriptions with Alt Text on Tumblr (Desktop)

Just so people are aware, you can add image descriptions via the alt text, but only from creating your image as a “text post”, because you need access to the HTML view feature. To edit the HTML of your text post, you need to click on the Settings icon in the upper righthand corner and choose “HTML”.

I usually just locate the image path url and then add in:
alt=“[put your image description here]”

A screenshot image of tumblr's dropdown from the settings that shows an option to select HTML.

You can double check to see if an image has alt text by right clicking page (not the image) > Inspect and viewing the HTML.

A screenshot image of the main blog view of tumblr user conniferuswhite. The first image is right clicked and showing a dropdown menu that has the option Inspect at the bottom.

And in the Inspect view, you’ll can see if an image has a description after the “alt” tag.

A screenshot image of the an image by tumblr user conniferuswhite and the HTML of the image is viewed within Inspect view. The info for the alt text is circled in red.
#artists on tumblr #feel free to reblog if this is helpful #i will be sure to include a note about that in future posts #why is tumblr made the way that it is smh #connie talks #alt text #image descriptions 
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Fri, 28 Jan 2022 14:40:36
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