What needs to be described in alt text must be done in 125 characters or less.

Some screen readers will stop reading at

this character length. There is often much more in an image (i.e., a picture is worth a thousand words) than can be
described in alt text. Depending on the context, the same image may have different descriptions. Consider the following
image in the two contexts described:

When graphing population growth, population is presented on the y-axis, and years are presented on the x-axis.
Example of a chart. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects.
Context 1: In a statistics book
In a statistics book the actual data values in the graph may not be important. What may be important is the way that data
is presented. Alt text in this case might read:

“When graphing population growth, population is presented on the y-axis, and years are presented on the x-axis.â€

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