Placement of captions and call-outs

Generally, in printed material, information that appears in captions and call-outs should also appear in text, unless there's no possibility of misreading or confusion and the art appears in the immediate textual context. However, some documents call for essential or procedural information to be placed solely in captions and call-outs. This is acceptable, but note that doing so can affect accessibility.

Not all art needs captions or call-outs, even within the same document. Use editorial judgement.

Always provide a brief description (see alt text) or a caption for a graphic on a web page.