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In HTML authoring, there are very good reasons to include an alt attribute into every img element. The purpose is to specify a textual replacement for the image, to be displayed or otherwise used in place of the image. Thus, the prime rule is: Consider what the page looks like or sounds like when images are not shown. Then, write for each image an alt text that best works as a replacement. This document also gives more specific suggestions for simple, common situations, and some uncommon too. For content-rich images, it recommends explicit links to textual alternatives.

TinEye is an image search engine built by Idée currently in beta. Give it an image and it will tell you where the image appears on the web.

Mac: If you've ever spent an hour using Photoshop or GIMP to create tutorials by inserting instructions onto images you'll enjoy Clarify. The app creates a screen capture and allows you to append and highlight the image. Unlike other apps, Clarify has the ability to take a delayed screenshot.

If you ever need to make a few quick tweaks to a photo, and you do not want to take the time to load up Photoshop, you should check out enThread. Sure, it doesn't have nearly as many features as Photoshop or one of the big image editing programs, but if you just need to make some small changes, the convenience of having it in your browser is awesome.

SpeakingImage is an application for creating interactive images and share them with others. You can also create groups, add wikis and set different permissions to manage collaborative work

While the artistry of photographers like Richard Avedon, Annie Leibovitz, and Yousuf Karsh provides the images of the powerful that will go down in history, TSG actually prefers the work of some more obscure shutterbugs. We're talking about the countless

SnapTell offers industry leading technology to recognize camera phone images sent by consumers and respond with relevant content. Our technology is integrated into a complete hosted mobile marketing solution available now to brands and marketers worldwide

Ian Hickson's MINI FAQ ABOUT THE ALTERNATE TEXT OF IMAGES

"the ultimate, complete, final social media sizing cheat sheet" (until social media sites change it up again!)

fabulous cheat sheet for pixel perfect social media images

The idea is to find differences between similar looking images. If that's your idea of a fun outing, you may be glad to know that anyone with an iPhone or iPod touch in hand can now partake in that same contest with a little application called Photo Hunte

a visual playground. Every week I'll take a popular and known website and reconstruct it by removing all words and images, replacing them with blocks (what is typical in the "concepting" phase of a design process). I welcome and value your feedback, comme

GazoPa is a next generation similar image search engine in private beta.

We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most "interesting" Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour. Also available with Alamy Stock Photography.

mbedly is a platform for converting URLs into embeddable content. Build rich and engaging applications through Embedly's APIs. Sites with embeddable media increase time on site by 250 percent. Keep your audience engaged with video, images, audio and more.

W3C Working Draft: author conformance requirements for use of the alt attribute in HTML5 and best practice guidance for authors of HTML documents on providing text alternatives for images

QR codes let you encode any type of text into an image, which can then be read by a smartphone camera. Now you can share the URL of any webpage through a QR code automatically using an online service called Lil'qr. You simply paste a code into the source code of your webpage(s) and when opened in the browser, a QR code is automatically generated.

Ookaboo is an intelligent image search engine that uses the Semantic Web API to intelligently categorize your results."All pictures on Ookaboo are available free under public domain or Creative Commons and can be used on web sites and for classwork and other creative projects. "

A content curation tool, in simple English, lets you easily pull videos, images, presentations, tweets, blog posts and other web content into a collection which you can then embed, publish or share online.

Have you ever wanted a way to create a survey that looks a lot nicer and more professional than just some text on a webpage? If you have, than you should check out Survey Legend, where you can make beautiful surveys with just a few clicks.