Body: <p>When posting a picture of a chess board, in a blog post or a website, what should the alt text be?
  The text that will be shown in case the image was not shown.
  example, html img tag <code>&lt;img src&quot;chessimg.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;</code></p>
  <p>I am assuming an explanation of the chess position with the pieces' coordinates?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: The first thing that comes to mind is a PGN or FEN of the game. This would be a good alt text to show if the page doesn't load, but I don't know how useful it would be to someone using a screen reader.
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Comments.Text: @MrinalJain if FEN is a good choice, then i would prefer to stick to it because it is an official standard of writing chess position, however, i am not sure it is the best choice, the pieces of white and black are written with the same character, only difference is capitalization, so maybe there should be a standard for alt text for chess images.
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Title: Alternative text for chess images
ThreadText: # Alternative text for chess images
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2024-07-02)
  
  When posting a picture of a chess board, in a blog post or a website, what should the alt text be?
  The text that will be shown in case the image was not shown.
  example, html img tag `<img src"chessimg.png" alt="" />`
  
  I am assuming an explanation of the chess position with the pieces' coordinates?
  
  **Tags:** books, chessboards, blindfold-chess, chess-blog
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: The first thing that comes to mind is a PGN or FEN of the game. This would be a good alt text to show if the page doesn't load, but I don't know how useful it would be to someone using a screen reader.  
  > **username_0**: @username_1 if FEN is a good choice, then i would prefer to stick to it because it is an official standard of writing chess position, however, i am not sure it is the best choice, the pieces of white and black are written with the same character, only difference is capitalization, so maybe there should be a standard for alt text for chess images.  
  
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