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Perfect Images

Ensure all images have descriptive alt text for accessibility and better readability.

Alt text is essential for accessibility and SEO, providing context to users who cannot see the images, such as those using screen readers. All images should have descriptive alt text.

• Guideline: If image does not contains alt property defined, the readability score decreases.
• Why: Missing alt text decreases accessibility. It also negatively impacts SEO, as search engines rely on alt text to understand and index images, potentially lowering your blog post page’s ranking.

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Using Markdown

The markdown syntax lets you add alt to images using the following code

![alt text](/path/image.jpg)

Note that the image file size must be less than 5MB. Otherwise, we recommend hosting on a service like Cloudinary or S3. You can then use that URL and embed.

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Using Embeds

To get more customizability with images, you can also use embeds to add images:

<img height="200" src="/path/image.jpg" alt="Alt text" />