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Alt Text for Scientific Graphics: Balancing between Accessibility and Giving the Answers

Imagine you’re a student in an introductory biology course. On an exam, your professor asks: " What is a byproduct of photosynthesis as exhibited by Figure 1.1 below? " Could you answer the question? Figure 1.1 Now imagine you are a student who has a visual impairment and you were asked the same question. Could you provide the answer then? Chances are you may not be able to answer the question based on Figure 1.1 alone. What seems like a well-written question, is actually only accessible to students who are sighted or otherwise have functional vision. For students with visual impairments, assessment questions based solely on scientific images or graphs may create a barrier in the learning process. Being web inclusive means that course content and associated materials are equitably available to all students regardless of their abilities, or type of technological device that they are using. Instead of relying only on scientific images and graphs to showcase data, you can im...