Accessibility: Images, Alt Text & AI

Need images for a presentation? See what MSU Libraries Health & Life Sciences Image Resources already has available.

Yearn to make your own scientific diagrams? Learn more about BioRender, a service offering life science graphics to drag and drop where needed. MSU offers a discount.

Want to create within Microsoft? This article explains how to create a SmartArt graphic.

Forget how to add alt text to an image? Microsoft provides how-to alt text documentation.

Want to ease the burden of generating alt text for images?  AI can help!

Don’t forget you can group visual elements together so that you can offer one alt text description for the whole group instead of a description for each element.

Looking for a deep dive on when, where, and how to use alt text? Microsoft has an article on that, too.